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Affiance

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Betroth

To contract to any one for a marriage to engage or promise in order to marriage to affiance used esp of a woman

Betrothal

of being betrothed a mutual promise engagement or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed betrothment affiance

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defy

To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance faith or obligation with to reject refuse or renounce

Fiance

To betroth to affiance

Ad ostium ecclesi', Dower

fee-simple of full age, openly 'at the door of the church' (where all marriages were formerly celebrated) after affiance made and troth plighted between them, endowed his wife with the whole or such quantity of his land

Espousals

Espousals [fr. sponsalia, Lat.; espouse, Fr.], the act of contracting or affiancing a man and woman to each other; the ceremony of betrothing. A mental promise between a man and

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