affiance
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And this affiance was in its being moral.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
Ne'er shalt thou rue thy dear affiance: Him that I love, oh let me know!’
From Stories of the Wagner Opera by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
"In God's name," cried he, "I plight such affiance as seems most meet to thee."
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
Our English "affiance," "defiance," "confidence," "diffidence," retain accurate meanings; but our "faithful" has become obscure, from being used for "faithworthy," as well as "full of faith."
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
Now must he bid farewell to the mountain, for he is going home to his mother who will affiance him to the daughter of the Pope Nicholas.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
However, usually the affianced couple can stick it out long enough to break up in private once the show is completely done.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2024
Cyrus made their relationship Instagram-official in November, and in late April, she announced they were affianced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Most of my friends are married, affianced, or gobbled up by Los Angeles, or veganism.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
The affianced co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” it turns out, have also been named visiting fellows to Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
Among the others came Christine, Karl's former affianced, heartwhole and smiling, already betrothed to a new lover; but no Wilhelmina.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Sydney tries to escape the pity of ever-present hotel guests by affiancing herself to a sanguine, vacationing clergyman aged 40, but the clergyman is quickly followed by an anticlimax.
From Time Magazine Archive
You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
The famous affiancing in New York of a coachman with the daughter of the millionaire who employed him did not turn out well.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Then they feasted, with unearthly servitors to attend them, and did all else appropriate to an affiancing of deities.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
Rumour said he had been on the point of affiancing another to one of the men now in prison.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)
