betrothment

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This betrothment of children, and all their other miserable arts, shall not save them.

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

He was more frightened than anybody at the moment the owl cried, on your betrothment night, when you fancied that Nipen had carried off Oddo.

From Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" by Martineau, Harriet

Thus, in the case before us, the betrothment rests upon what God vouchsafes along with it, inasmuch as thereby only does it become a true betrothment.

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

Last Thursday Countess L. opened the season with an unusual event—a betrothment ball.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence

Milder thoughts, we say; and consented to a meeting next autumn at some half-way station, where their great business might be brought to a happy settlement and betrothment.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)