affiance
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In this meane while, such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church, ceassed not to vtter their consciences, though in secret, to those in whome they had affiance.
From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; Ð used esp. of a woman.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
William made use of Harald’s compulsory sojourn to make him swear allegiance to him, and affiance him to his daughter.
From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn
He chose her in a love, whose affiance was sanctioned in heaven; and after three years' absence in the Lake Country, he and Julia met again at his father's house.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
Thus he pledged his faith, and the Duke accepted his affiance.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
Cyrus made their relationship Instagram-official in November, and in late April, she announced they were affianced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
The series follows couples who have applied for a K-1 visa, allowing a U.S. citizen to bring over their affianced love from another country.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2018
The affianced co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” it turns out, have also been named visiting fellows to Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
Being gay is a great thing to be ostentatious about, although using the correct pronouns to refer to your affianced hardly reaches “ostentatious” levels, in my book.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2017
Nevertheless, he had met his cousin's affianced wife on several occasions, for Hedwig now frequently came over to Ettersberg with her father.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
Sydney tries to escape the pity of ever-present hotel guests by affiancing herself to a sanguine, vacationing clergyman aged 40, but the clergyman is quickly followed by an anticlimax.
From Time Magazine Archive
You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
Then they feasted, with unearthly servitors to attend them, and did all else appropriate to an affiancing of deities.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
The king survived these transactions two years; but nothing memorable occurs in the remaining part of his reign, except his affiancing his second daughter, Mary, to the young archduke Charles, son of Philip of Castile.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
The famous affiancing in New York of a coachman with the daughter of the millionaire who employed him did not turn out well.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
