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Daliance vs Dalliance - What's the difference?

daliance | dalliance |

As nouns the difference between daliance and dalliance

is that daliance is while dalliance is playful flirtation; amorous play.

daliance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Banish that ticing dame from forth your mouth, And follow your foreseeing starres in all; This is no life for men at armes to liue, Where daliance doth consume a Souldiers strength, And wanton motions of alluring eyes, Effeminate our mindes inur'd to warre. }}

    dalliance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Playful flirtation; amorous play.
  • *
    • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance , which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
  • A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
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  • A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

    • Synonyms

    * (a wasting of time) dawdling, idling, trifling * (playful flirtation) flirtation * (sexual relationship) affair

    Related terms

    * dallier * dally * dallying