(n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
(n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
(v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
(v. t.) To assure by promise.
Example Sentences:
Fiance
Definition:
(v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.
(n.) A betrothed man.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(2) I had to continue my run, performing jokes every night about my wonderful fiance.
(3) He was described as a much-loved son, dad, fiance, brother and cousin.
(4) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(5) She gave up acting and is now a freelance writer – her first book, Everyday Sexism, comes out in the spring – and lives in north London with her fiance, an actor.
(6) The baby was using up all her energy so she was lying in bed with the radio on, trying to get some rest at the chaotic refugee camp in West Germany where she had fled a few months earlier, leaving her fiance, Fried, back on the east side.
(7) Last year she had another child, a son with her fiance who is also a recovering addict.
(8) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(9) Her fiance, Walton, has moved clubs a lot recently, "and you don't know whether you're coming or going.
(10) This is also what Castile’s fiance Diamond Reynolds relayed in the Facebook Live video she began streaming just moments after the shots were fired, which went viral across the US.
(11) Neither do fiance(e)s. These relationships, apparently, are not “bona fide”.
(12) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.
(13) John Prescott And Tracey Temple, April 2006, Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror broke the story after Barrie Williams, Tracey Temple's fiance, told them he'd become suspicious she might be having an affair after she started moaning 'DPM' (for Deputy Prime Minister) in her sleep.
(14) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(15) Think back to His Girl Friday, in which Rosalind Russell juggles fiance, ex-husband, speed-of-light dialogue and the ethics of journalism, wears extravagant hats and performs an impressive rugby tackle.
(16) Gillian Taylforth v the Sun, 1994 One of Carman's most celebrated victories, the EastEnders actress lost her libel over a report that she had performed oral sex on her fiance in a layby on the A1 after the QC produced one of his famous 11th-hour rabbits from a hat: a video of Ms Taylforth holding a bottle proclaiming to her fellow partygoers "I give good head".
(17) Her fiance, another police officer, was at her side.
(18) And, almost as ominous, we see the attempts of shelf-stacker Ginger, under Jasmine's influence, to swap her car-mechanic fiance, Chilli, for a more middle-class model.
(19) She was no rock thrower at the vanguard of a movement for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young woman who may have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(20) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, the newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.