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
They wished to betroth me to another; thou art the one to whom my soul is betrothed.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
And because I hold the power Both to bind as well as loosen, I now solemnly betroth you.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
Vocabulary lists containing betroth
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