different between affiance vs affianced

English

Alternative forms

• affiaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French affiance, from affier (from Medieval Latin aff?d?re, from *f?d?re, from Latin f?dere) + -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fa??ns/
• Rhymes: -a??ns

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.

See also

• fiance

Translations

Noun

affiance (plural affiances)

1. Faith, trust.
   • 1849, James Stephen, Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography

     Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

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

2. (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 […].

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French afiance, from afier (“to promise”) +? -ance.

Noun

affiance f (plural affiances)

1. promise (verbal guarantee)

Descendants

• ? English: affiance

References

• affiance on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

English

Verb

affianced

1. simple past tense and past participle of affiance