affiancing

Verb

affiance (third-person singular simple present affiances, present participle affiancing, simple past and past participle affianced)

1. (literary, often, passive, transitive) 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....

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