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retenance (1273-82)
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retenance (1273-82)

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retenaunce,  retienance,  retinance,  retinaunce  (recevaunce (l. retenaunce)  Rot Parl1 ii 62,  retenaunz)  
  FEW:  retinere 10,335a Gdf:  retenance 7,139b GdfC: ∅ TL: retenance 8,1115 DEAF:  retenir (retenance)  DMF:  retenance  TLF: ∅ OED:  retenance n.  MED:  retenaunce n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1statusretinue, company of people in service: 
( 1321-22 )  a lui ne volayt aherder ne de sa retenaunce estre  Rot Parl1 i 391
( 1323 )  ceux qi sount ovesques nous, ou ount esté de notre retenaunce  Red Bk 924
( s.xiv1?; MS: s.xivex )  [...] riche et vaillant et de grant retenance des gentz  Three Chronicles 6.42
( 1339 )  [...] de faire sa retenance de .xx. hommes d'armes  Rot Parl1 ii 110
( c.1378; MS: s.xivex )  Justice ad de sa retenaunce Trois autrez  GOWER Mirour 15230
2lawstatusretainment, state of being in the service of another: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Trailbastouns sunt nomez de cel retenaunce  LANGTOFT thiol2 418.2319
( 1346 )  ceaux de la garnison de Berewyk out dit [...] que en cas q’ils n’eyont paiement de deners hatiement en mayn solonc ce que lour covenantz de lour retenance voillont, ils ne poont [...] plus longement demurrer  King’s Council England 484
( s.xiv2/3; MS: s.xivex )  si vous eez affeare de nous et de notre retinaunce, nous sumes venuz en votre terre et voluntiers  Brut Prose (1332) 1492
♦law(terms of) retainment, service: 
( s.xiv1 )  un clerc de la liveré [...] ferra la liveré en sale et dehors a chescun solonc la retenance  Scot Household 35.x
3lawretention (of water), damming up: 
( s.xiv1/4 )  la lunge tenure (var. (H2: 1307-27?) retenance) de cele ewe  Nov Narr 86 (var.)
4finan.(financial) support, maintenance: 
( s.xiv1 )  touz ceux qi cleiment [...] d'avoir certain fee ou retenances des costages le roi  Scot Household 37.xvii
endenture de retenance
lawindenture of retinue, formal contract of service of a knight to his lord: 
( 1321 )  Verso: Endenture Pieres de Ovedale, chevaler, de retenaunz  Actes privés 207
sanz retenance
unconditionally, without restriction, exception: 
( c.1282 )  se il le veut senz retenance, le relef est al segneur  Bor Cust ii 61
♦without restraint: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Lors fus batu sanz retenance; Chescun te fiert, chescun te lance; Ton sanc i court en habundance  Ross ANTS 637

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See also:

retenable  retencion  reteneil  retenement  reteneresce  retenir  retenour  retentif  retenue  retient 
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