Definition of "affiancing" [affiancing]

• Present participle of affiance. (verb)

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• "Neither does an affiancing that arrives so early in the story."
• "In affiancing him to Grania, his family had naturally assumed he would lead the life of a Latin squire, this being the heritage of his blood, and chosen his wife accordingly."
• "They had their customs of affiancing and divorcing; and perhaps by how much the less accurate they were about their divorces, (I mean with respect to the Jewish rules,) the nearer they might come to the first institution of"