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noun

Affiance n.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise. (archaic)

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. (archaic) "Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love." "Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance."

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Etymology of 'Affiance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Affiance" Quotes from Famous Books

... with clear and unfaltering conviction of our understandings and loving affiance of our whole souls, to repeat as our own the grand words in which so many centuries have proclaimed their faith—words which shed a spell of peacefulness over stormy lives, and fling a great light of hope into the black jaws of the grave: ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren

... availeth nought; The day passeth and is almost ago— I wot not well what to do— To whom were I best my complaint to make? What and I to Fellowship thereof spake, And showed him of this sudden chance? For in him is all mine affiance. We have in the world, so many a day, Been good friends in sport and play; I see him yonder certainly! I trust that he will bear me company; Therefore to him will I speak to ease my sorrow: Well met, ...

— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various

Words linked to "Affiance" : vow, engage, plight, betroth