▪ I. † soverance Sc. Obs.
Also 5–6 souerance, 6 souerans(e, souuirance.
[Cf. prec. and surance n.]
Assurance; safe-conduct; truce.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace xi. 881 Bot..souerance he wald nocht grant, Thocht thai ȝoldin wald cum as recreant. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 880 Thy self maid me neuer sa affraid, That I for souerance wald haue praid. 1525 Earl of Angus in St. Papers Hen. VIII (1836) IV. 378 Richtsa the soverance, takin in Parliament betuix Hir Grace and me,..I have observit and kepit in all poyntis. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 13 With Ingland thay take nocht a Souerans abone four ȝeiris. |
▪ II. soverance
obs. Sc. f. sufferance.