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Affiance vs Engages - What's the difference?

affiance | engages |

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.

    engages

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (engage)
    • This pedal engages the clutch, until you do that you can't shift.
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