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

But I shall betroth you to the daughter of Eli Witebski, the great merchant.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de

"And I betroth thee to Me for eternity; and I betroth thee to Me in righteousness and judgment, and in loving-kindness and mercy."

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm