Affiance

n.	1.	Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
	2.	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.
v. t.	1.	To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. [imp. & p. p. affianced (ăf*fī"anst); p. pr. & vb. n. affiancing (ăf*fī"an*sĭng).] To me, sad maid, he was affianced. - Spenser.
	2.	To assure by promise.

Verb

1.

affiance - give to in marriage Synonyms: betroth, plight, engage

AFFIANCE, contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman. Litt. s. 39. Pothier, Traite du Mariage, n. 24, defines it to be a an agreement by which a man and a woman promise each other that they will marry together. This word is used by some authors as synonymous with marriage. Co. Litt. 34, a, note 2. See Dig. 23, 1 Code 5, 1, 4; Extrav. 4, 1.

betroth, engage, plight, vow

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