Word Meanings - FIANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To betroth; to affiance. Harmar.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FIANCE)

• Homage
• Fealty
• allegiance
• submission
• worship
• deference
• fiance
• respect
• veneration

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FIANCE)

• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn
• Abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to FIANCE)

• WORSHIPFUL
  Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• VENERATION
  The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character,
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• FIANCE
  A betrothed man.
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• HOMAGE
  A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign. 2. Respect or reverential
• ABOMINATE
  To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• DESPISEMENT
  A despising. Holland.
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• CONTEMN
  To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn;
• DESPISE
  To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• RESPECTIVELY
  1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon.
• DISHONORABLE
  1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• SELF-WORSHIP
  The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNWORSHIP
  To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• IRRESPECTIVE
  1. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God. Rogers.
• AFFIANCE
  fr. afier to trust, fr. LL. affidare to trust; ad + fidare to trust, 1. Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise. 2. Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen.