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affianced adjective [ əˈfʌɪənst ]

• engaged to be married.
• "an affianced couple"

affiance verb

• be engaged to marry.
• "Edward was affianced to Lady Eleanor Butler"
Similar: engaged, betrothed, espoused, promised, plighted, pledged, contracted, bound, spoken for,
Opposite: unattached, single,
Origin: late 15th century: from Old French afiancer, from afier ‘promise, entrust’, from medieval Latin affidare ‘declare on oath’, from ad- ‘towards’ + fides ‘trust’.


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