Engage vs Affiance - What's the difference?
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To interact socially.
#To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage .
#To draw into conversation.
#*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
#*:the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
#To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:Good nature engages everybody to him.
(lb) To interact antagonistically.
#(lb) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
#*(Fitz Hugh Ludlow) (1836-1870)
#*:a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
#(lb) To enter into battle.
(lb) To interact contractually.
#(lb) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
#*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=2 #(lb) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
#(lb) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
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# To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
(lb) To interact mechanically.
#To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
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# To come into gear with.
(label) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.
Faith, trust.
*, II.12:
*:All other outward shewes and exterior apparences are common to all religions: As hope, affiance , events, ceremonies, penitence and martyrdome.
* Sir J. Stephen
* Tennyson
(archaic) A solemn engagement, especially a pledge of marriage.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
Engage is a related term of affiance.
As verbs the difference between engage and affiance
is that engage is while affiance is to be betrothed to; to promise to marry.As a noun affiance is
faith, trust.engage
English
(wikipedia engage)Alternative forms
* ingage (obsolete)Verb
(engag)citation, passage=For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged , and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.}}
- Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage .
- The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
Antonyms
* (to cause to mesh or interlock) disengageDerived terms
* engagement * disengage * disengagement ----affiance
English
Alternative forms
* affiaunce (obsolete)Verb
(en-verb)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne; / Accord of friends, consent of parents sought, / Affiance made, my happinesse begonne.