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noun

Affiance n.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise. (archaic)

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. (archaic) "Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love." "Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance."

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Etymology of 'Affiance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Affiance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the eyes of all nations. Foreign powers, who may yet wish to revive a friendly intercourse with this nation, will look in vain for that hold which gave a connection with Great Britain the preference to an affiance with any other state. A House of Commons of which ministers were known to stand in awe, where everything was necessarily discussed on principles fit to be openly and publicly avowed, and which could not be retracted or varied without danger, furnished ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... the lady so urgently, so tenderly he sued for grace, that at the last she assured him of her love, and gave him the gift of her heart. They granted rings one to another, and pledged affiance between them. They kept this faith, and guarded this love, till they died together, and there was an end ...

— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France

Words linked to "Affiance" : vow, engage, betroth, plight