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  • verb Present participle of affiance.

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Examples

  • Neither does an affiancing that arrives so early in the story.

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • Neither does an affiancing that arrives so early in the story.

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • Neither does an affiancing that arrives so early in the story.

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • In affiancing him to Grania, his family had naturally assumed he would lead the life of a Latin squire, this being the heritage of his blood, and chosen his wife accordingly.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • They had their customs of affiancing and divorcing; and perhaps by how much the less accurate they were about their divorces, (I mean with respect to the Jewish rules,) the nearer they might come to the first institution of

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Then they feasted, with unearthly servitors to attend them, and did all else appropriate to an affiancing of deities.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • But if you will have me, upon your oaths to me of this our affiancing, I beseech you to give me no jewels, neither the revenue of provinces for my dower.

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • 'Great kings and lords upon their affiancing day have ever had the habit of granting their brides a boon or twain -- as the conferring of the revenues of a province, or the pardoning of criminals.'

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • Rumour said he had been on the point of affiancing another to one of the men now in prison.

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • On the following day the affiancing, of which this entertainment had been the prelude, took place with great solemnity.

    The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

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