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# affiance

«affiance» in Mova's school dictionary: **To promise a person in marriage, or to become engaged to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affiance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.