- a variation of betrothal.
betrothment
Example Sentences
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The occasion, on the particular January day mentioned above, was the betrothment of one of the house-maidens to a young farm-servant of the establishment.
From Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" by Harriet Martineau
One thing, however, is strictly forbidden, and if in this instance they prove contumacious, the betrothment is instantly broken and the pair are never united, and thenceforward bear an evil reputation amongst their sect.
From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow
This was his betrothment and marriage to Marie Hélène, the daughter of Nicolas Boullé, private secretary to the young King.
From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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 Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
Her beauty, her wit, they were her own; but they had availed her little before her betrothment to Rube.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
