affiance

Example Sentences

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Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

"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

In this meane while, such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church, ceassed not to vtter their consciences, though in secret, to those in whome they had affiance.

From Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Holinshed, Raphael

And be it well and truly seen that the elements of this affiance with his God, and the elements of his firm league with brothermen were identically the same.

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