Chevisaunce vs Chevisance - What's the difference?
chevisaunce | chevisance | Alternative forms |
(label) Help, remedy; a resource or solution.
(label) The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose.
(label) Chivalrous adventure.
*, II.ix:
*:Fortune, the foe of famous cheuisaunce / Seldome (said Guyon ) yields to vertue aide, / But in her way throwes mischiefe and mischaunce, / Whereby her course is stopt, and passage staid.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book IV, lxxxi:
*:Ah! be it not pardie declared in France, / Or elsewhere told where court'sy is in prize, // That we forsook so fair a chevisance , / For doubt or fear that might from fight arise.
(label) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
(label) An unlawful agreement or contract.
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