Affiance
[ә'faiәns]
Definition
(n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
(n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
(v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
(v. t.) To assure by promise.
Edited by Elise
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Betroth, engage.
Editor: Rufus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Homage, trust, confidence, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting
ANT:Unfealty, disloyalty, treason, suspicion, Infidelity, falseness
Checked by Irving
Definition
n. faith pledged to: marriage contract: trust: affinity (in on).—v.t. to pledge faith: to betroth.—adj. and n. Affī′anced betrothed.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- To drop the figure,--he saw and won the love of a high-minded and beautiful woman, in one of the northern states, and they were affianced. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Affianced, he explained, still busy with the fruit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Attila continued to speak of her as his affianced bride, and to use the relationship as a pretext for aggressions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checked by Harriet