Affianced

Definition: Affianced

Affianced

Adjective

1. Pledged to be married; "the engaged couple".

Date "affianced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Affianced

Domain	Definitions
Satire	AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Affianced

Synonyms: bespoken (adj), betrothed (adj), engaged (adj), pledged (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Affianced

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Love	Betrothed, affianced, fiancee.
Marriage	Engaged, betrothed, affianced.
Promise	Promised; Verb: affianced, pledged, bound; committed, compromised; in for it.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Affianced

English words defined with "affianced": Trothplight. (references)

Specialty definitions using "affianced": Bride of Abydos ♦ Called ♦ Emerald ♦ Felician ♦ Geese ♦ Hair ♦ Ottoman ♦ Pearls ♦ Swearing. (references)

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Photo Album: Affianced

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Evangeline discovering her affianced in the hospital] / Samuel Richards.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Use in Literature: Affianced

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	From that blessed and holy hour when a kiss affianced these two souls, Marius came every evening.
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Usage Frequency: Affianced

"Affianced" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Affianced" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	100%	6	143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Affianced

Expressions using "affianced": affianced bespoken betrothed engaged pledged promisedpredicate ♦ affianced to. Additional references.
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Modern Translations: Affianced

Language		Translations for "affianced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i fejuar me (affianced to). (various references)

Bulgarian		сгоден (betrothed, engaged). (various references)

Czech		zasnoubený (betrothed, engaged). (various references)

German		Verlobte (became engaged, betrothed, engaged couple, fiance, fiancee). (various references)

Hebrew		מאורס (engaged). (various references)

Hungarian		jegyes (betrothed, engaged, fiance, fiancee, intended, sweetheart). (various references)

Manx		naishtit (engaged), naisht (bind, engaged). (various references)

Pig Latin		affianceday

Russian		обрученный (betrothed, engaged). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaručen (engaged), veren (contracted, engaged). (various references)

Turkish		nişanlanmış, nişanlı (engaged, engaged to be married, fiance, fiancee, intended). (various references)

Ukranian		засватаний (engaged), заручений (betrothed, contracted, engaged, ringed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Affianced

Misspellings
	"Affianced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afianced, effiency, Malfiance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Affianced

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-f-i-n"
	-1 letter: affiance.
	-2 letters: affined, caffein, faciend, fancied.
	-3 letters: acedia, affine, facade, fadein, fiance.
	-4 letters: acned, aecia, caned, canid, dance, decaf, faced, facia, faena, fiend, fifed, fined, naiad, nicad.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, acne, aide, cade, cadi, cafe, caff, caid, cain, cane, cedi, cine, dace, daff, deaf, dean, defi, deni, dice, dine, face, fade, fain, fane, fend, fice, fief, fife, find, fine, iced, idea, nada, naif, neif, nice, nide.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-f-i-n"
	+2 letters: caffeinated.
	+3 letters: decaffeinate.
	+4 letters: decaffeinated, decaffeinates, dieffenbachia, disaffirmance.
	+5 letters: decaffeinating, decaffeination, dieffenbachias, disaffirmances.
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