affiance
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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
Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
She may bear with them, but she layeth no affiance in them.”
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
It is not well done for a king to affiance himself to one woman when he already has another for his wife.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. by Charles Morris
The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The affianced Earhart and the married George Palmer Putnam met in his Manhattan office in the spring of 1928.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
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
If this woman decides to yell at you for becoming affianced, that’s a real opportunity for her fiancé to lovingly encourage her to amend her bad behavior.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2017
Are you perchance that King Liopatris to whom my father has affianced me?”
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
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
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
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
Rumour said he had been on the point of affiancing another to one of the men now in prison.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
