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# affiance

verb (affiance, affiances, affianced, affiancing; old use)

«affiance» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To promise a person in marriage, or to become engaged to marry them. Affiance is an old word for betroth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiance/#m1)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales, when two people are promised to each other to marry

### Examples

- The prince was affianced to the princess. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiance/#x1)
- Art affianced Delvcaem to himself. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiance/#x2)
- They were affianced together at last. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiance/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «affiance» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiance/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«affiance» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/affiance.html) on Mova free.