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noun

Alliance n.

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. "The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel." "The alliance... between logic and metaphysics."

The persons or parties allied.

Synonyms: Connection; affinity; union; confederacy; confederation; league; coalition.

verb

Alliance v. t. To connect by alliance; to ally. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Alliance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alliance" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am now a widow. It is for my husband that I wear this mourning. They took me from the convent where I was educated, and married me to a man whom I was permitted to see only once before the alliance was concluded. As I had been brought up with the idea that my father was to choose a husband for me, and as the Count D—— was both handsome and of agreeable manners, the only qualities on which ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various

... equally distinguished by, equal, that is, to his beauty. —S. 5. Tolumni Lars Tolumnius, King of the Veientos, in alliance with Fidenae (about 5 miles N.E. of Rome).] quacumque se intendisset wherever he directed his charge. 8-11. Hicine ... manibus dabo. Fidenae had frequently been colonised by Rome, and had as frequently revolted. When ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... I have neither friends nor allies, I may find both in other parts of the world. Asia may send me the troops which Europe denies. If Russia is my enemy, who knows but for this reason Turkey may become my ally? And who knows but an alliance with the so-called unbelievers would be of more value to Prussia than a league with the so-called believing Russians? They call themselves Christians, but their weapons are lies, intrigues, deceit, and treachery. The Moslem, ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... reached him that Grace was a great scholar, but he had never heard much of her beauty. It must probably be the case that Major Grantly was fond of Greek. There was, he reminded himself, no accounting for tastes; but as nothing could be more respectable than such an alliance, he thought that it would become him to be civil to ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

... singer of to-day requires to be conducted on broader and more comprehensive lines than in the past, on account of the different conditions which have presented themselves. Singing—that is, the alliance and utterance of Music and Poetry—is one of the highest manifestations of the Beautiful, and is man's supreme and greatest creation. Therefore, singing will not seek in future to rival a mechanical instrument. It will, it is evident, ...

— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

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