affiance

Example Sentences

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And this affiance was in its being moral.

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

Your uncle holds my father as prudent and wise: they are two ancient gentlemen, of ripe years, and have faith and affiance the one in the other.

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

The choice rested with the fathers, who were accustomed to affiance their sons early, indeed when mere boys.

From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo

She may bear with them, but she layeth no affiance in them.”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

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