sovenance

sovenance

English

Etymology

From Old French souvenance, from the verb sovenir.

Noun

sovenance (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Memory, remembrance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     Her light behauiour, and loose dalliaunce / Gaue wondrous great contentment to the knight, / That of his way he had no souenaunce […]