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

So Henry at last made up his mind at least to execute the treaty which was to betroth his surviving son to Katharine.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume

Among Persians it is a common custom to betroth children.

From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

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

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

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

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

Hemsworth is also betrothed, set to marry Australian model Gabriella Brooks, who announced their engagement in September.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

Sánchez has talents apart from her betrothed, too.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

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

Then the merchant laughed richly, for he was fat and well-fed, and he said, “I have a second son of ten whom I have not betrothed yet. How old is the girl?”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

He concluded a treaty with Ladislaus, King of Hungary, and strengthened the bond of union by betrothing his daughter to Andrew, Duke of Slavonia and brother of Ladislaus.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

When the time of betrothing is completed, the nuptials ought to take place, n.

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

There were, according to the Talmudists, three ways of betrothing.

From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

He made closer his ancient friendship with Guy of Dampierre, the old Count of Flanders, by betrothing Edward of Carnarvon to his daughter Philippine.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

X. When the time of betrothing is completed, the nuptials ought to take place.

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