Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
affiance
af-fi′ance
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
affianced
(ăf-fī′anst)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
affiancing
(ăf-fī′an-sĭng)
.] [Cf. OF.
afiancier
, fr. afiance
.] 1.
To betroth; to pledge one’s faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
To me, sad maid, he was
affianced
. Spenser.
2.
To assure by promise.
[Obs.]
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Affiance
AFFI'ANCE
,Noun.
1.
The marriage contract or promise; faith pledged.2.
Trust in general; confidence; reliance.The Christian looks to God with implicit affiance.
AFFI'ANCE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To betroth; to pledge one's faith or fidelity in marriage, or to promise marriage.To me, sad maid, he was affianced.
2.
To give confidenceAffianced in my faith.
Definition 2024
affiance
affiance
English
Alternative forms
- affiaunce (obsolete)
Verb
affiance (third-person singular simple present affiances, present participle affiancing, simple past and past participle affianced)
Translations
to be betrothed to
|
|
Noun
affiance (plural affiances)
- Faith, trust.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- All other outward shewes and exterior apparences are common to all religions: As hope, affiance [transl. confiance], events, ceremonies, penitence and martyrdome.
- Sir J. Stephen
- Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love.
- Tennyson
- Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have / Most joy and most affiance.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- (archaic) A solemn engagement, especially a pledge of marriage.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne; / Accord of friends, consent of parents sought, / Affiance made, my happinesse begonne […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv: