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 this they agreed, and the princess said, “If you will betroth me to the man sitting on the top of the mast of the vessel in the harbour, I shall immediately regain my health.”

From Santal Folk Tales by A. Campbell

Wilt thou betroth thyself to me in this wise?

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lopez and Affleck were previously betrothed in the early aughts but famously called off their engagement.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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

"Take my betrothed back to the castle, and see that no harm befalls her," the prince told him brusquely.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Two things were, however, requisite as an introduction and preparation to marriage at Sparta, first, betrothing on the part of the father;1352 secondly, the seizure of the bride.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

On hearing this, her parents became greatly distressed, as they were averse to betrothing their daughter to a stranger of whom they knew nothing.

From Santal Folk Tales by A. Campbell

The state of betrothing may be compared to the state of spring before summer; and the internal pleasantness of that state to the flowering of trees before fructification.

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

The wily Menschikof succeeded in betrothing his daughter to the young Emperor, but not in retaining his ascendency over the self-willed boy.

From A Short History of Russia by Mary Platt Parmele

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