alliance
/əˈlaɪ.əns/ noun B2- 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. · matrimonial alliances
- Marriage.
- Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
- The persons or parties allied.
- Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).
Plural alliances
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de Saint-Méran’s oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois, “that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?”
“Well,” said the marquise, “it seems probable that, by the aid of the Holy Alliance, we shall be rid of Napoleon; and we must trust to the vigilance of M.
“Do you know, my dear Villefort,” cried the Comte de Salvieux, “that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease.
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