affiance

Example Sentences

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For nothing that man can give would I have you doubt my faith and affiance.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

Your uncle holds my father as prudent and wise: they are two ancient gentlemen, of ripe years, and have faith and affiance the one in the other.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

It is not well done for a king to affiance himself to one woman when he already has another for his wife.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. by Morris, Charles

No. In the words of the old church service, “her soul must ever have affiance in God.”

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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 Beardslee, Clark S.