fiance
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Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fiance (plural fiances)
- Alternative spelling of fiancé
Etymology 2 edit
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fiance (third-person singular simple present fiances, present participle fiancing, simple past and past participle fianced)
- (obsolete) To betroth; to affiance.
- 1569, Thomas Stocker, A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great:
- he […] therfore fianced he his daughter
- 1993, Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91[1]:
- he should become so lusty over a lady of such questionable motives? He was fianced, after all. Perhaps that was it. Since his engagement, he had abstained from any liaisons, feeling it was only proper in a man soon to be married
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French fiance, from Old French fiance, from fier + -ance.
Noun edit
fiance f (plural fiances)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
fiance
- inflection of fiancer:
Further reading edit
- “fiance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French < fier + -ance or Latin fidentia.
Noun edit
fiance f (plural fiances)
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Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- fïance (occasional scholarly form)
Etymology edit
From the verb fier + -ance or from Latin fidentia.
Noun edit
fiance oblique singular, f (oblique plural fiances, nominative singular fiance, nominative plural fiances)
- faith; confidence
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:
- En tels vassals deit hom aveir fiance !
- In such knights a man must have confidence!