单词 | affidation |
释义 | affidationn. Now historical. Sworn confirmation of a fact, promise, or obligation; esp. sworn confirmation of one's intent to marry. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath > of particular type abjuration?a1439 professing1560 vow of silence1567 oath of allegiance1574 vow1600 affidation1612 abjuration1621 fetish1705 affidature1727 pledge of allegiance1750 abjuration of the realm1768 oath-parole1900 Guide's honour1912 1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. iii. 214 The Empresse swore, and made affidation to the Legat, that all the great businesses..should bee at his disposing, if he (with the Church) would receiue her as Queene of England... The same oath and affidation tooke likewise her brother. 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxi. 280 The Priest is..guilty of Affidation to a Virgin. 1768 T. Moffat Let. 15 Dec. in T. Hutchinson Representations (1773) 47 You will see how strictly and soon I follow your counsel in making affidation to the estimate of my loss. 1864 Norwich Spectator Nov. 339 His voice alone could not arrest the proceedings, and the ceremony of ‘Affidation’ was completed on the 1st of August in that year with great pomp. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. ii. vii. 377 She demanded William as her husband in the court Christian, relying on an affidation that had taken place between them. 1904 Eng. Hist. Rev. 19 345 It is interesting to find that affidation (troth-plight) was held to legitimate the offspring born before the celebration of an ecclesiastical ceremony. 1984 Speculum 59 52 It seems that there was no set rule on whether a woman could or could not alienate her land after affidation. 2003 S. M. Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in 12th-cent. Anglo-Norman Realm ii. vi. 116 When Walter Bech and Agnes, his wife, made an agreement to exchange certain lands with Kirkstead Abbey in 1162,..they both made an affidation in the hand of Walter abbot of Bardney. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1612 |
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