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