affiance
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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 Clark S. Beardslee
No. In the words of the old church service, “her soul must ever have affiance in God.”
From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
But under his old preceptor, Lord Bute, backed by Lord North, he was bound to court ruin and affiance it.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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
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 Guglielmo Ferrero
Machine Gun Kelly proposed to Fox in January 2022, after which the affianced couple allegedly drank each other’s blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 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
Lindo gets off relatively easy by “only” being affianced to a stranger at age 4.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 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
And that thing is my affianced husband Ah, no I cannot go through with it, he is too repulsive!
From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey
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 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
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
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
