affianced
affianced is the simple past and past participle of affiance.
Meaning of affiance
Verb
affiance (third-person singular simple present affiances, present participle affiancing, simple past and past participle affianced)
- To be betrothed to; to promise to marry.
- [S]he had expected the worst ever since Drusilla had deliberately tried to unsex herself by refusing to feel any natural grief at the death in battle not only of her affianced husband but of her own father [...]1935 April, William Faulkner, “Skirmish at Sartoris”, in The Unvanquished, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1938, →OCLC; republished in The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text, New York, N.Y....
Adjective
affianced (not comparable)
- engaged; betrothed
- Their relationship, closeted because Wani is nominally affianced, isn't the only secret they share: Wani has introduced Nick to cocaine, a different line of beauty and emblematic of the perilous gratifications the 1980's have seemingly underwritten.2004 October 31, Anthony Quinn, “'The Line of Beauty': The Last Good Summer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Words formed from affianced
Questions about affianced
- What does affianced mean?
- Affianced means engaged; betrothed.
- What is affianced the simple past and past participle of?
- Affianced is the simple past and past participle of affiance.
- What part of speech is affianced?
- Affianced is an adjective.
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