fiance
verb/ˈfaɪ.əns/
Etymology From Middle English fyancen, fyauncen, from Middle French fiancer.
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Obsolete To betroth; to affiance.
- he[…]therfore fianced he his daughter1569, Thomas Stocker, A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great:
- 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 married1993, Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91: