mountenance
English
Etymology
Alteration of mountance, after maintenance.
Noun
mountenance (plural mountenances)
- (obsolete) A given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
- This said, they both a furlongs mountenance / Retyrd their steeds, to ronne in euen race […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii: