affiance
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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
You set affiance on him, I know, and I the like: and if he be not misturned, methinks he may yet prove a good servant.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
"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 Eugene Mason
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 Marie de France
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
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
Machine Gun Kelly proposed to Fox in January 2022, after which the affianced couple allegedly drank each other’s blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
Lindo gets off relatively easy by “only” being affianced to a stranger at age 4.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 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
Oswald, I solemnly entrust my affianced wife to your protection and knightly conduct.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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
You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
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
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
