Meanings
nounsovenance (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableMemory, remembrance.
worldly sovenance he mustforsay
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC1 more example
Her light behauiour, and loose dalliaunce / Gaue wondrous great contentment to the knight, / That of his way he had no souenaunce […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Frenchsouvenance
- Englishsovenance
From Old French souvenance, from the verb sovenir.
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