affiance

VERB
  1. give to in marriage
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How To Use affiance In A Sentence

  • Yet, it astounded those women that her father had wealth, power, and she had beauty, and she wasn't even affianced.
  • Billowed in tumultuous joys and affianced, why you would but will it and your girl would have it. Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • First he leaves his affianced wife to disport herself alone in Cairo while he is amusing himself in the Sudan. LION IN THE VALLEY
  • She called her affianced lover "Lionel," no matter who chanced to be present; and she would ask him to help her to hand the tea, just as if he already belonged to her. Prince Fortunatus
  • Probably the best way to solve the problem about which my original correspondent wrote — as still other readers pointed out — would be to sidestep it and call the twosome an engaged couple, affianced, or something else in which the words have no gender. Word Court
  • Bertrand, a young _menuisier_ (carpenter), who had recently commenced business on his own account, and whom he so frequently met at the charming _modiste's_ shop, was her accepted, affianced lover. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
  • Know affiance No offense against pigeons but they seem , in their current numbers , such an unnecessary bird, he says.
  • This hasn't served America's eaters really well, as good as a President -- and everybody else, it seems, have affianced to shift this. Obama Foodorama: Citizen Food Safety Advocates Visit White House ...
  • He is affianced to the princess, ie engaged to marry her.
  • De Guiche, upon whose lips a courtier's jest was already fitting, but to whom the word "affianced," addressed by Malicorne with respect to Ten Years Later
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