It is also possible to interpret the word as an aphetic form of alouance ('allowance, payment' and 'cost, expense'), in which case it derives from a different etymon, laudare.
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c.1136-65; MS: c.1200
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En lor force e en lor bonté Iert eschalcie la cité, Dunt seinte eglise est denotee Ki par les bons est enoree, E de ço ert as bons loance Ke li felon avrunt pesance
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