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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French vaillance, from vaillant + -ance, or possibly from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valēns.
Pronunciation
Noun
vaillance f (plural vaillances)
- (usually in the singular) valiance, courage, bravery
Further reading
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From vaillant + -ance, or possibly from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valens.
Noun
vaillance oblique singular, f (oblique plural vaillances, nominative singular vaillance, nominative plural vaillances)
- value; worth
1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience- Just like the lord, who wants to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place in order to increase his power, puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
- (literally, “Just like the lord, who wants in small place to amass things of very great value ”)
- valiance; chivalry; bravery
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