betroth

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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

This morning I let myself be persuaded, from weakness, from emotion, they had celebrated my birthday so unexpectedly, to promise to betroth myself this evening to Baron von Wallen.

From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop

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 Wilson, Samuel Graham