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.
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)
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 Judson, L. Carroll
Here is an ideal where conscience and righteousness stand in close affiance, where liberty springs from equity, and where pity never fails.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
That attachment and affiance, which ought to subsist between the dependant and his protector, are destroyed.
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester
