Definition of "allegeance"

allegeance¹

noun
plural allegeances
1. (obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
  Quotations
  What bootes it him from death to be vnbound, / To be captiued in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despaire without aleggeaunce?
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

allegeance²

noun
countable and uncountable, plural allegeances
1. Obsolete spelling of allegiance