Alliance

Al·li·ance

Alliance

n.
  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.
    — C. J. Smith.
    The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics.
    — Mansel.
  3. The persons or parties allied.

Alliance

v. t.
  1. To connect by alliance; to ally. [Obs.]