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Affiance   Listen
verb
affiance  v. t.  (past & past part. affianced; pres. part. affiancing)  
1.
To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. "To me, sad maid, he was affianced."
2.
To assure by promise. (Obs.)





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"Affiance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Crownes, beside and aboue fifteene hundred thousand should be reserued for the Kings Maiestie: wherefore they allied themselues with La Roquette and another of his confederates, whose name was Le Genre, in whom (M459) notwithstanding I had great affiance. (M460) This Genre exceeding desirous to enrich himselfe in those parts, and seeking to be reuenged, because I would not giue him the carriage of the Paquet into France, secretly enfourmed the Souldiers that were already suborned by La Roquette, that I would depriue them of this ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... Thaisa: and while she hung in rapturous joy over her child, Pericles knelt before the altar, saying: 'Pure Diana, bless thee for thy vision. For this, I will offer oblations nightly to thee.' And then and there did Pericles, with the consent of Thaisa, solemnly affiance their daughter, the virtuous Marina, to the well-deserving Lysimachus ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb


Words linked to "Affiance" :   vow, engage


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