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aloignance1 (c.1275)
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The form aleyngnance is a cross reference to the following entry:

aloignance1 (c.1275)

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alloignance,  alloinance,  alloingnance,  alloingnaunce;  alognance,  aloinance,  aloinaunce  (aleyngnance,  aleyngnanse)  
  FEW:  longe *5,405a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  loing (aloignance)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

Derivatives of the adjectives lung (‘long’, from Latin longus) and luin (‘far’, from Latin longe – with the adverbial form producing a diphthongization of the root vowel) are separated on etymological and semantic grounds. However, the overlap of spelling variants (with or wihtout the diphthonization) between the two groups suggests no firm distinction between them.

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1 distance, separation, absence: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Fraunceys out graunt cherisaunce; De sé fiz la alloyngnaunce Ne pout endurer lungement  S Fran ANTS 1106
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim ) hom dit qe par eloingnance (var. (D: s.xivm) alloingnance ) Met l’en amur en obliance  Ipom BFR 837 (var.)
2departure, leaving: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  ceste humiliance […] A cele vie nous avaunce Dont orgoil nous [fet] alognance  Ross ANTS 1812
3lawremoval outside the jurisdiction of a court: 
( 1314-15 )  [...] la fause date, qe fu fait a tort et encontre ley de terre, en aleyngnanse et a desheritance la dite C.  Rot Parl1 i 304
♦ law removal from legal rights: 
( 1314-15 ) selonc la fause date qe fu fait a tort et encontre ley de terre, en aleyngnanse et a la desheritance la dite Cecille  Rot Parl1 i 304
4temporalpostponement: 
( 1323-25 )  La response le roi de France [...] de l’alloignance de l’homage tanqe a la feste de la Nativité  St Sard 180

See also:

aloigne1  aloigner1  aloignour  aloignement  esloignance1  luin 
This is an AND1 entry © MHRA 1977-1992: reproduced with permission. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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