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

Two days later the Patriarch himself rejected Mar Gauriel's suit, saying, "It would be a shame for the House of Mar Shimun—it would be a shameful example to betroth so young a girl."

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

"And I betroth thee to Me for eternity; and I betroth thee to Me in righteousness and judgment, and in loving-kindness and mercy."

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

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

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

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

Cressida betroths herself to Troilus, a son of Priam, and vows eternal fidelity.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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

Sánchez has talents apart from her betrothed, too.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

Just months ago, Ashanti confirmed that she and the “Hot in Herre” rapper, 49, were betrothed and expecting their first child together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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

Others say she suffered from a broken heart after her childhood sweetheart and betrothed died in a freak accident.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Two things were, however, requisite as an introduction and preparation to marriage at Sparta, first, betrothing on the part of the father;1352 secondly, the seizure of the bride.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

The wily Menschikof succeeded in betrothing his daughter to the young Emperor, but not in retaining his ascendency over the self-willed boy.

From A Short History of Russia by Mary Platt Parmele

Consent is to be secured and established by solemn betrothing, n.

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

An old baron insists on betrothing his daughter and heiress to her kinsman freshly knighted.

From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy