betroth
verb (used with object)
to arrange for the marriage of; affiance (usually used in passive constructions).
betroths
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present tense formof betroth (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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 Isabel Florence Hapgood
If a man says to a woman, "Thou art betrothed to me after thirty days," and in the interim another comes and betroths her, she is the second suitor's.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
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
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
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
