affiance

Example Sentences

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Ne'er shalt thou rue thy dear affiance: Him that I love, oh let me know!’

From Stories of the Wagner Opera by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Canst thou say, in humble assurance of thine affiance in Him, “My beloved is mine, and I am His!”

From The Faithful Promiser by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

But now Liben bids farewell to the forest; he is going home that his mother may affiance and wed him to the daughter of the Pope Nicholas.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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

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