Affianced
[ə'faiənst]
Definition
(imp. / p. p.) of Affiance
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Unserious Contents or Definition
pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.
Editor: Monica
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.
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