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af·fi·ance    Audio Help   [uh-fahy-uhns] Pronunciation Key verb, -anced, -anc·ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.to pledge by promise of marriage; betroth.
–noun Archaic.
2.a pledging of faith, as a marriage contract.
3.trust; confidence; reliance.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME < MF afiance, equiv. to afi(er) to pledge faith, declare on oath, betroth (< ML affīdāre, equiv. to ad- ad- + *fīdāre, for L fīdere to trust; see confide) + -ance -ance]
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af·fi·ance    Audio Help   (ə-fī'əns)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   af·fi·anced, af·fi·anc·ing, af·fi·anc·es
To bind in a pledge of marriage; betroth.


[From Middle English affiaunce, assurance, from Old French, from affier, to trust to, from Medieval Latin affīdāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin fīdus, faithful; see bheidh- in Indo-European roots.]

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affiance

verb
give to in marriage [syn: betroth] 

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Affiance

Af*fi"ance\, n. [OE. afiaunce trust, confidence, OF. afiance, fr. afier to trust, fr. LL. affidare to trust; ad + fidare to trust, fr. L. fides faith. See Faith, and cf. Affidavit, Affy, Confidence.]

1. Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

2. Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.

Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. --Sir J. Stephen.

Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. --Tennyson.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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