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

"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 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Marshal Wolfgang de Polhain, instructed by Maximilian to betroth Anne to his master, heard a rumour of this hasty alliance.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The betrothed Brits weren’t the only musicians feeling the love Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Amari and Besa had been formally betrothed to each other last year.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

Moreover, she had taken an irretrievable step in betrothing herself to Captain Kilmeny.

From The Highgrader by D. C. Hutchison

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

An old baron insists on betrothing his daughter and heiress to her kinsman freshly knighted.

From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy

By betrothing, each party is prepared for conjugial love.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

But I ain't stuck up—not I. I do you the honor, Professor Smith, the very great honor of betrothing to you my and Vesta Van Warden's daughter.

From The Scarlet Plague by Gordon Grant