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• alliaunce (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 alliaunce, from Old French aliance (French alliance). Equivalent to ally +‎ -ance. Compare with Doric Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”). See also al-.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈlaɪ.əns/
• 韻: -aɪəns

名詞

alliance (countable and uncountable, plural alliances)

1. (uncountable) The state of being allied.
2. (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
3. (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

   matrimonial alliances

   an alliance between church and state, or welded by two countries

   1. (dated or India) Marriage.
4. (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
   • 1624, William Udall, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland:

     And as for kindred , there is no Alliance neerer vnto any one, than their Countrey , that is to be vnto vs another God, and our prime and deareſt Parent.

   • 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:

     the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel

   • 1860, Henry Longueville Mansel, Prolegomena Logica: An Inquiry Into the Psychological Character of Logical Processes:

     the alliance […] between logic and metaphysics

5. (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
6. (taxonomy, dated) Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).

同意語

• (union by relationship in qualities): connection, affinity, union, allyship
• (act of allying): union
• (persons or parties allied): coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)

派生語

関連する語

• ally

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: alaiens

動詞

alliance (third-person singular simple present alliances, present participle alliancing, simple past and past participle allianced)

1. (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

Further reading

• “alliance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “alliance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• ancillae, canaille