![]() ![]() I like to give affianced friends a copy of Rebecca Mead’s book “One Perfect Day,” which exposes the ridiculous wedding industry. It comes from a past tense form of the Latin verb affidare, meaning “to pledge” in Latin, affidavit translates to “he or she has made a pledge.”Īffidare is also the root of affiance, an archaic English noun meaning “trust, faith, confidence,” “marriage contract or promise,” or a meaning that has completely fallen from use, “close or intimate relationship.” More familiar to modern English speakers is the verb affiance, meaning “to promise in marriage” or “to betroth.” It usually appears as a fancy-sounding participial adjective: Promises, Promises: The History of Affidavit, Affiance, & FiancéĪffidavit refers to a written promise, and its Latin roots connect it to another kind of promise in English. ![]()
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