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Extent vs Mountenance - What's the difference?

extent | mountenance |

In obsolete terms the difference between extent and mountenance

is that extent is extended while mountenance is a given amount, value, or extent of time or distance.

As an adjective extent

is extended.

extent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A range of values or locations.
  • The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
    • The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
  • * '>citation
  • (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.

    • See also

    * scope * ("extent" on Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Extended.
    • (Spenser)
    ----

    mountenance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 [...].