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Affiance vs Pledge - What's the difference?

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Affiance is a related term of pledge.


In lang=en terms the difference between affiance and pledge

is that affiance is to be betrothed to; to promise to marry while pledge is to give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.

As verbs the difference between affiance and pledge

is that affiance is to be betrothed to; to promise to marry while pledge is to make a solemn promise (to do something).

As nouns the difference between affiance and pledge

is that affiance is faith, trust while pledge is a solemn promise to do something.

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.

    pledge

    English

    (wikipedia pledge)

    Verb

    (pledg)
  • To make a solemn promise (to do something).
  • To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
  • To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
  • * 1773 ,
    • HARDCASTLE [Taking the cup.] I hope you'll find it to your mind. I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable. Will you be so good as to pledge me, sir? Here, Mr. Marlow, here is to our better acquaintance. [Drinks.]
  • * 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult
    • Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,
    And pledge me in it first for courtesy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A solemn promise to do something.
  • Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned.
  • A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but not yet formally approved.
  • A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
  • A drinking toast.
  • A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

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