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fiance en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /fiˈɒnseɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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  • /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/ (General-American)
  • /fiˈɑnseɪ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of fiancé.
    alt of fiancé

Forms

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fiances Number=Plur lexicographic

fiance en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfaɪ.əns/

Etymology

From Middle English fyancen, fyauncen, from Middle French fiancer.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To betroth; to affiance.
    • 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 1993, Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91:
    • he[…]therfore fianced he his daughter 1569, Thomas Stocker, A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great:

Forms

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fiances Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
fiancing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fianced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fianced Tense=Past lexicographic