betroths
- present tense form of betroth (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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 Ager, John
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
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 Ager, John
