Affiance vs Affianced - What's the difference?
affiance | affianced |
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:
(affiance)
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:
As verbs the difference between affiance and affianced
is that affiance is to be betrothed to; to promise to marry while affianced is (affiance).As a noun affiance
is faith, trust.affiance
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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.
affianced
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Verb
(head)affiance
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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.