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

In the beginning of the year 1680 Sitzel, Klemming’s daughter, was persuaded by Maren Blocks to betroth herself to one of the King’s body-guard.

From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

A monstrous arrangement, thus to betroth young people, mere children often, nolens volens, but a very common one at the period.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

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

Before she has time to complete her arrangements, however, Buondelmonte betroths himself to a daughter of the house of Amidei.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

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

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

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

Was he supposed to be betrothed to him forever, and be a mantlepiece for folk music until his death?

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024

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

Last of all came a little hump-backed, wizened old man in whom she recognized with a shudder the new Grand Vizier and her own betrothed husband, Ahoshta Tarkaan himself.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

V. Consent is to be secure and established by solemn betrothing.

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

This betrothing of children is now the custom of the age, in knightly as well as in princely families.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Only three years ago, when your Majesty's father was alive, there was some talk of peace and of betrothing you to her, and that was when her portrait was sent here.

From Europa's Fairy Book by John Dickson Batten

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

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

In short, it was the betrothing day of the beauteous Faith and Fessel's new partner in business, master Dorn.

From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Carl Franz van der Velde