affies

Verb

affy (third-person singular simple present affies, present participle affying, simple past and past participle affied)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To have faith in (someone); to trust.
2. (obsolete, transitive) Chiefly followed by that or to: to formally affirm or promise (something).
3. (obsolete, transitive) Chiefly of a man: to formally promise to marry (someone, chiefly a woman); to be engaged to; also, to marry (someone); to espouse.
   • He, though affide unto a former love, / To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold, / […] Her graunted love, but with affection cold […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
4. (obsolete, transitive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by to, unto, or with: often of a parent or guardian: to formally promise that (someone) be married to another person; to affiance, to betroth.
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Followed by in, to, or unto: to bind or pledge (someone or something) to another person or thing.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) Chiefly followed by in, on, and upon: to rely on, to trust.
   • Marcus Andronicus, so I do affie / In thy vprightnesse and Integrity […]c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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