As for Lydia herself, the last week had brought that thin face of hers to look all of its thirty odd years; and the smile which she turned upon her affianced was the product of conscientious effort.

<Fide> (trust, believe, have faith): (1) fidelity, confide, confident, diffident, infidel, perfidious, bona fide, defiance, affiance; (2) fiduciary, affidavit, fiancé, auto da fé, Santa Fé. Sentences:

Charles VIII of France sends back to her father his affianced bride, Margaret; compels Anne of Brittany to break her engagement to Maximilian and marries her himself, thus uniting Brittany and France.

And then and there did Pericles, with the consent of Thaisa, solemnly affiance their daughter, the virtuous Marina, to the well-deserving Lysimachus in marriage.

It is the custom for great kings to keep Religiously their pledged, affianced word; But thou hast broken thine, despite of honour.

If thou bearest me love and affiance, and for thy part wilt promise to make richer all the riches that are mine, on my part I will free thee from these sullen rags and array thee in the purple and ermine of a king.

The Britons were sorely troubled at this matter, and prayed the king not to put such affiance in the outland folk, for they wrought much mischief.

He had gone through many and divers perils, and was a valiant knight, having faith and affiance in God.

engagement, preengagement; affiance; betroth, betrothal, betrothment.

Hope N. hope, hopes; desire &c 865; fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith &c (belief) 484; affiance, assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.

marry, join, handfast^; couple &c (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c (promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.

He is a traitor to affiance and abuse to employment, and a rule of villainy in a plot of mischief.

His son was rapidly rising to eminence in the corps diplomatique, and lately (though, strictly speaking, unebenbürtig) contracted an affiance with the Prinzessin Charlotte Mariana Natalia of Morgen-üppigen, a lady with a strain of indubitable Hohenzollern blood in her royal veins.

"Here, beside the grave of her whom you both loved, I affiance you.

It is not a light task to change habits of political affiance, cemented by so many years.

Coloring crimson, as it became the affianced bride of Henry Warner to do, Maggie turned away, thinking Helen must be a happy girl, and half wishing she too were Arthur Carrollton's sister.

"It is not that I love Henry less, I am sure," she thought; and laying her head upon her pillow she recalled everything which had passed between herself and her affianced husband, trying to bring back the olden happiness with which she had listened to his words of love.

They granted rings one to another, and pledged affiance between them.

For nothing that man can give would I have you doubt my faith and affiance.

By the will of Jesus Christ, who faileth never such as have faith and affiance in Him, Messire Thibault did such things in arms that in a short space the enemies of the Soudan were put under his feet.

Thus he pledged his faith, and the Duke accepted his affiance.

Know, now, without doubt, that never again shall I have in you such affiance, nor grant you my love with such sweetness, as I have bestowed them in the past.

in that this treaty was the consequence and the confirmation of an enormous concession which he had, two years previously, made to the King of Spain on consenting to affiance his daughter, Princess Claude of France, two years old, to Ferdinand's grandson, Charles of Austria, who was then only one year old, and who became Charles the Fifth (emperor)!

She likes to be wooed with music, and flowers, and poetry, and to remain coy and only yield when her full heart had gone long before; and then to be engaged, and wear her ring, and be proud of her affianced, and to be enviedoh, it is a thousand, thousand times more to us than to you.

It is this: he asked father's permission to address me, not knowing I was affianced.