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

“And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever.”—Hosea ii. 19.

From The Faithful Promiser by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

They wished to betroth me to another; thou art the one to whom my soul is betrothed.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver