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SYLLABICATION:af·fi·ance
PRONUNCIATION:  -fns
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: af·fi·anced, af·fi·anc·ing, af·fi·anc·es
To bind in a pledge of marriage; betroth.
ETYMOLOGY:From Middle English affiaunce, assurance, from Old French, from affier, to trust to, from Medieval Latin affdre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin fdus, faithful; see bheidh- in Appendix I.
 
 
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