affiance

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But I repose in you such affiance, as you will not deceiue so simple a Ladie as I am, vtterly voyde of guyle and deceit.

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  1. transitive verb To bind in a pledge of marriage; betroth.

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  • Trusting also assuredly you will take and accept this grace and virtue in such good part as appeareth, and that we shall [not] be enforced to use the service of other our true subjects and friends, which in this, our just and rightful cause, God, in whom our whole affiance is, shall send us. —  TheChildrenof
  • Nay, but it is, I account of Him as a true man; I trust Him, with body and soul, with friends and goods: I hold Him worthy of all affiance, and I will hold back nothing, neither myself nor my having, from His keeping and disposing. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
  • But I repose in you such affiance, as you will not deceiue so simple a Ladie as I am, vtterly voyde of guyle and deceit. —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • Thus, when they have obtained their purpose that a lewd affiance is reposed where it should not, they enter (as it were) into a new league, and trouble them no more. —  Elizabethan Demonology
  • It is not a light task to change habits of political affiance, cemented by so many years. —  Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
 

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  1. From Middle English affiaunce, assurance, from Old French, from affier, to trust to, from Medieval Latin affīdāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin fīdus, faithful; see bheidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English affiance, afiance, affyance, -aunce, from Old French afiance, from afier, affier, trust in, later Middle English afien, affien: see affy and -ance.
  2. from Old French afiancer; from the noun.
 

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