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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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
Cressida betroths herself to Troilus, a son of Priam, and vows eternal fidelity.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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
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
