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Definition of Affiancing
1. affiance [v] - See also: affiance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affiancing
Literary usage of Affiancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Perhaps he eung the affiancing—butif so, the Lay has perished, along, no doubt,
with many others famous in their time. The Princess Margaret remained in ..."
2. Charicles: Or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks. With by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1889)
"... to the bridegroom. thus declaring her choice. All this is entirely opposed to
Greek customs. At the same time that the affiancing took place, tne dowry, ..."
3. Social Scandinavia in the Viking age by Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1920)
"... the proper affiancing arrangements were quite common, and were generally
contracted by well-to-do men with women who were their social inferiors. ..."
4. The Wars of Succession of Portugal and Spain, from 1826 to 1840: With Résumé by William Bollaert (1870)
"This affiancing did not seem very probable to me. On the 6th astounding information
arrived that Maroto had had his sanguinary coup at Estella. ..."
5. History of Louisina by Charles Gayarré (1867)
"The affiancing of parties, the nullity or validity of the marriage contract, the
granting of a perpetual divorce, or a temporary separation, all this falls ..."
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