Alliance
Alliance ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English aliaunce, Old French aliance, French alliance, from Old French alier, French allier. See Ally, and compare Late Latin alligantia.]
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
The persons or parties allied. — Udall
Alliance , transitive verb
To connect by alliance; to ally. [Obsolete]