Definition of "sovenance"

sovenance

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) Memory, remembrance.
  Quotations
  worldly sovenance he mustforsay
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,
  Her light behauiour, and loose dalliaunce / Gaue wondrous great contentment to the knight, / That of his way he had no souenaunce […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie