affiance

No. In the words of the old church-service, "Her soul must ever have affiance in God."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

They tried to engage James to affiance Elizabeth to the Duke of Savoy's son, the Prince of Piedmont, and Henry to the Duke's daughter.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Here is an ideal where conscience and righteousness stand in close affiance, where liberty springs from equity, and where pity never fails.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

She may bear with them, but she layeth no affiance in them.”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt

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 John Ruskin

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

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

If this woman decides to yell at you for becoming affianced, that’s a real opportunity for her fiancé to lovingly encourage her to amend her bad behavior.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2017

The communication was by note to each family, which note contained also an invitation to a family dinner at Ion, given in honor of the newly affianced pair.

From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley

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

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 M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

The king survived these transactions two years; but nothing memorable occurs in the remaining part of his reign, except his affiancing his second daughter, Mary, to the young archduke Charles, son of Philip of Castile.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

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 T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Then they feasted, with unearthly servitors to attend them, and did all else appropriate to an affiancing of deities.

From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell