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
But as in the upper classes it was customary to betroth children still in the cradle, absence of consent could readily be alleged.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
To this they agreed, and the princess said, “If you will betroth me to the man sitting on the top of the mast of the vessel in the harbour, I shall immediately regain my health.”
From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.
Vocabulary lists containing betroth
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