alligeance (c.1292)
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alligeance (c.1292)

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  FEW:  *let- *16,463a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  lige (*)  DMF:  allégeance 2  TLF:  allégeance 2  OED:  allegiance n.  MED:  alligeaunce n.  DMLBS:  alligantia 66b
aleggeance,  aleggeaunce;  aligaunz,  aligeance;  alleggeance,  allegeaunce  

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1lawallegiance, loyalty promised or owed to a king or lord: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et si tiel heir ne deyve tenir de nous, adounc soit la aleggeaunce de la seignurie a celi qi major dreit avera en soen mariage  ii 29
( 1361 )  dit q'il est del alligeance du roi de Fraunce  3
2lawligeance, territories subject to a sovereign: 
( 1321-22 )  tott les possessiouns q’il teyndrunt deynz l’alygaunz nostre dit seignur le roy  i 401
( 1381 )  Qe null lige […] face eskipper ses merchandises […] fors en niefs de l’alligeance  iii 120
ligeance 
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