"fiance" meaning in English

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      "form": "fianced",
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          "text": "he[…]therfore fianced he his daughter",
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          "text": "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",
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