alliaunce

alliaunce (plural alliaunces)

1. Obsolete form of alliance.

• lacinulae

• aliance, aliaunce, alliance, allyaunce, alyance, alyaunce, eliance, elyaunce

Borrowed from Old French aliance; equivalent to allien +‎ -aunce.

• IPA^(key): /aliːˈa(u̯)ns(ə)/, /aˈliːa(u̯)ns(ə)/

alliaunce (plural alliaunces)

1. A linkage between friends, partners or associates:
   1. An alliance; a compact between two allies:
   2. A state of marital connection or union.
   3. An illegitimate or unrecognised romantic relationship.
2. One's relations via marriage; one's stepfamily.
3. Similarity, linkage, or relation.
4. (rare) The parties of an alliance.

• English: alliance
• Scots: alliance

• “allīa(u)nce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 March 2019.