Obs. [a. OFr. amenance, action of bringing, conducting, f. Fr. amener to lead, bring to: see -ANCE.] Conduct, bearing, mien.
1591. Spenser, Mother Hubb. T., 781. For armes and warlike amenaunce. Ibid. (1596), F. Q., II. viii. 17. Well kend him … Th’ enchaunter by his armes and amenaunce.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., XI. ix. [He] with grave speech, and comely amenance Himself, his State, his Spouse, to them commended.
1739. Melmoth, Fitzosb. Lett. (1763), 290. One only impe he had … Whose sweet amenaunce pleas’d each shepherd’s eye.
