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

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 Havergal, Frances Ridley

Precontract, prē-kon-trakt′, v.t. to contract beforehand: to betroth previously.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various