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
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.
From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton
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
From that conjunction it can be seen how love or the will betroths to itself wisdom or the understanding, and afterwards weds it, that is, enters into a kind of marriage with it.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
Before the combat Lohengrin betroths himself to Elsa, naming only the condition that she shall never question him as to his name or race.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
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
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
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
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
Hemsworth is also betrothed, set to marry Australian model Gabriella Brooks, who announced their engagement in September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
Sánchez has talents apart from her betrothed, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025
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
Her favorite story was about Kathleen, a pretty girl of sixteen who was betrothed to the village baker's son, a handsome young man with jet-black hair and smiling brown eyes.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Consent is to be secured and established by solemn betrothing, n.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
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
But I ain't stuck up—not I. I do you the honor, Professor Smith, the very great honor of betrothing to you my and Vesta Van Warden's daughter.
From The Scarlet Plague by Gordon Grant
They had a ceremony of betrothing, which preceded that of marriage.
From Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by William Priest
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
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