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▪ 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...
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surance
† ˈsurance Obs. Also 4 surrawns, 5 suraunce, -awnce, surans(e, seuerans, sewrawnce, -aunce, 6 sorance. [a. OF. surance, f. sur sure a., after assurance, of which it may be sometimes merely an aphetic form. Cf. soverance.] 1. A pledge, guarantee; = assurance 1.c 1300 Beket 1910 Ich wole assoilli hem ...
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memorance
† memorance Obs. [as if ad. L. type *memorantia, f. memorāre: see memorate v. and -ance.] Memory.c 1320 [see next B. 1]. 1480 Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 187 The quhylkis sall reman in memorans of the samyn. 1662 Forbes Aberdeen Cantus in Herd's Songs (1904) 95 So that your soverance..Mark in your ...
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sufferance
sufferance (ˈsʌfərəns) Forms: 4 sufrance, soffra(u)nce, 4–6 suff(e)raunce, 4–7 suffrance, 5 souerans(e, soferons, -aunce, sofferaunce, 5–6 sufferans, souerance, 6 souffrance, suffrans, 7–8 sufference, 4– sufferance. [a. AF., OF. suf(f)rance, soffrance (mod.F. souffrance) = Pr. sofransa, -ensa, It. s...
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