affiance

Example Sentences

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Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Our English "affiance," "defiance," "confidence," "diffidence," retain accurate meanings; but our "faithful" has become obscure, from being used for "faithworthy," as well as "full of faith."

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

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

This is that supreme affiance and espousal of the soul wherein they may be released into a larger air, undelayed by the earthward longings and gradual initiations of seemingly happier men.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

Thus Lincoln learned and knew that among all men, and between all men and God there was a fundamental ground of imperishable affiance.

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