AFFIANCE

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

2.
n.

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

3.
v.

To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

4.
v.

To assure by promise. [Obs.] Pope.

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