betroth

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

To betroth one's self in the presence of mortal danger?

From Danira by E. Werner

Among Persians it is a common custom to betroth children.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

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

He betroths himself oftener to the devil in one day than Mecaenas did in a week to his wife, that he was married a thousand times to.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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

Uncle Starodúm makes acquaintance with Mílon, whose good qualities he has learned through an old friend, and betroths him to Sophia.

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood

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

The men, with their hands wrapped in satin white gloves, each held identical 14-karat gold rings for their betrothed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Sánchez has talents apart from her betrothed, too.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

Just months ago, Ashanti confirmed that she and the “Hot in Herre” rapper, 49, were betrothed and expecting their first child together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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

It had been his notion to have the Brazen Beasts follow her betrothed and take note of all his actions.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

F. B. W. The Sposalizio, or "espousals," or betrothing, is certainly a different ceremony from the marriage.

From Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

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

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

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

The ancient ceremony of betrothing seems still to have been in full use in Shakespeare’s day.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer