As verbs the difference between affiance and engages
is that
affiance is to be betrothed to; to promise to marry while
engages is .
As a noun affiance
is faith, trust.
affiance English
Alternative forms
* affiaunce (obsolete)
Verb
(en-verb)
To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.
Noun
( en noun)
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
- 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 .
(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.
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engages English
Verb
( head)
(engage)
- This pedal engages the clutch, until you do that you can't shift.
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