affiance

English

Alternative forms

• affiaunce (obsolete)

Verb

affiance (third-person singular simple present affiances, present participle affiancing, simple past and past participle affianced)

1. (transitive) To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.

Translations

to be betrothed to

Bulgarian: вричам се, сгодявам се

Noun

affiance (plural affiances)

1. (archaic) A solemn engagement, especially a pledge of marriage.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:

     I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne; / Accord of friends, consent of parents sought, / Affiance made, my happinesse begonne [...].