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

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

So Henry at last made up his mind at least to execute the treaty which was to betroth his surviving son to Katharine.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp