mountenance

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noun

A given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.

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Meanings

nounmountenance (plural mountenances)

plural mountenances

  1. obsoleteA given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.

    This said, they both a furlongs mountenance / Retyrd their steeds, to ronne in euen race […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

Alteration of mountance, after maintenance.

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APA

mountenance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountenance

MLA

“mountenance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountenance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mountenance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mountenance.

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