affiance

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That firme affiance, quoth I, had I in you before, or else I would neuer haue gone so farre ouer the shooes, to plucke you out of the mire.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

Here is an ideal where conscience and righteousness stand in close affiance, where liberty springs from equity, and where pity never fails.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

No. In the words of the old church-service, "Her soul must ever have affiance in God."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

"In God's name," cried he, "I plight such affiance as seems most meet to thee."

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

And be it well and truly seen that the elements of this affiance with his God, and the elements of his firm league with brothermen were identically the same.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.