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

And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.

From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard

Hear what He says: ‘And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever’ And again: ‘Thou shalt abide for Me many days; so will I also be for thee.’

From Kept for the Master's Use by Frances Ridley Havergal

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

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

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

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 two formidable women in Cal’s life—Lena, his betrothed, and Trey, his teenage protégée—suspect that Rachel was silenced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

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

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 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

"Glory to your betrothed," Ser Arys answered at once.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The custom of betrothing children in their infancy is commonly practised here, in which respect these people differ from the natives of Greenland, where it is comparatively rare.

From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 by Sir William Edward Parry

It was a strange betrothing, and little said.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

They had a ceremony of betrothing, which preceded that of marriage.

From Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by William Priest

But I ain't stuck up—not I. I do you the honor, Professor Smith, the very great honor of betrothing to you my and Vesta Van Warden's daughter.

From The Scarlet Plague by Gordon Grant