alliance

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1. alliance - Noun

2. alliance - Verb

3. Alliance - Proper noun

Meaning

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 persons or parties allied.

To connect by alliance; to ally.

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. Thomas Jefferson

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. Francis Parker Yockey

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. Frances Burney

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson

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