betroth
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Following her death from tuberculosis in 1847, he planned to betroth his first love, Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, in the same city.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
The most important decisions you make in this game are not military, but about to whom to betroth your children.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2012
Intoned the bride's father: "I betroth to Your Majesty my daughter, Farida."
From Time Magazine Archive
I did hear," said Schilder-David, "that they are all assembled at the Forest Mill this very day to betroth Adam to Tony.
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. by Berthold Auerbach
To this they agreed, and the princess said, “If you will betroth me to the man sitting on the top of the mast of the vessel in the harbour, I shall immediately regain my health.”
From Santal Folk Tales by A. Campbell
Cressida betroths herself to Troilus, a son of Priam, and vows eternal fidelity.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
If a man says to a woman, "Thou art betrothed to me after thirty days," and in the interim another comes and betroths her, she is the second suitor's.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
Before the combat Lohengrin betroths himself to Elsa, naming only the condition that she shall never question him as to his name or race.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Love betroths to itself wisdom by preparing for it a house or bridal chamber, and marries it by conjoining it to itself by affections, and afterwards lives wisely with it in that house.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
From that conjunction it can be seen how love or the will betroths to itself wisdom or the understanding, and afterwards weds it, that is, enters into a kind of marriage with it.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
The two formidable women in Cal’s life—Lena, his betrothed, and Trey, his teenage protégée—suspect that Rachel was silenced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Day trader Alex Henderson confuses his betrothed Ashley Carpenter with a shifting backstory involving frequent moves and overlapping dating histories, all attributed to his “nomadic lifestyle.”
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Lopez and Affleck were previously betrothed in the early aughts but famously called off their engagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
You’ve surely seen these pictures: The newly betrothed couple walking back down the aisle, the bride and groom graciously taking in their champagne toasts, a few dizzying iPhone videos from a crowded dance floor.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2024
"Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her," the prince told him brusquely.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
It was a strange betrothing, and little said.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
By betrothing, each party is prepared for conjugial love, n.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
He concluded a treaty with Ladislaus, King of Hungary, and strengthened the bond of union by betrothing his daughter to Andrew, Duke of Slavonia and brother of Ladislaus.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
It was not impossibly a scheme for betrothing King Pedro to the infant Princess of the Asturias, thereby uniting the two Crowns, and bringing about the dethronement of Queen Isabella.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Arthur Christopher Benson
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