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▪ I. † soverance Sc. Obs.
Also 5–6 souerance, 6 souerans(e, souuirance.
[Cf. prec. and surance n.]
Assurance; safe-conduct; truce.
c1470Henry Wallace xi. 881 Bot..souerance he wald nocht grant, Thocht thai ȝoldin wald cum as recreant. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 880 Thy self maid me neuer sa affraid, That I for souerance wald haue praid. 1525Earl of Angus in St. Papers Hen. VIII (1836) IV. 378 Richtsa the soverance, takin in Parliament betuix Hir Grace and me,..I have observit and kepit in all poyntis. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 13 With Ingland thay take nocht a Souerans abone four ȝeiris.
▪ II. soverance
obs. Sc. f. sufferance. |