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Meanings of betroth in English
Catalan
comprometre's Spanish
desposar Synonyms
Examples for "engage"
Examples for "engage"
1
Just keep listening; engage with the problem, ask more and more questions.
2
View, engage, listen, read and ask as many questions as you wish.
3
However, the US would continue to engage with the organisation, he said.
4
Dr Prasad said the government should engage with unions in good faith.
5
The Australian Government should engage with South African officials, Mr Roets said.
1
China have hardly been sympathetic to the Europeans' plight in recent weeks.
2
However, to many observers the plight of gay Republicans seems extremely difficult.
3
The company's plight highlights the challenges facing small Canadian health-care sector companies.
4
What had happened, he said, should raise awareness of the migrants' plight.
5
Now no one in particular is to blame for this social plight.
1
Here, beside the grave of her whom you both loved, I affiance you.
2
Thus he pledged his faith, and the Duke accepted his affiance.
3
They granted rings one to another, and pledged affiance between them.
4
Test this experience by your own simple affiance and living trust in Jesus Christ.
5
For nothing that man can give would I have you doubt my faith and affiance.
1
Why should I not choose to go up on to the Island to deliver my trothplight maiden?
2
Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all.'
3
"Trothplighted," she whispered, with wide-open eyes of delight; "I hoped as much-howhappy my father will be when Oliver"-
4
"Since you make so great a claim on Maggie, you may; but why did she not write to you, if you were trothplighted?"
5
"Nay, I deem it not," said Hallblithe: "But, tell me, is it verily true that my trothplight is not here, that I may ransom her?"
Usage of betroth in English
1
Be it as thou wilt; I consent to betroth thee to Cleonice.
2
The emperor sent for the archbishop of the city to betroth them immediately.
3
I went there not to meet death, but to betroth myself to it.
4
And now, as I join your hands, I betroth your souls.
5
I will betroth her to your nephew, my beloved Montagu's son.
6
Father will never betroth me to Iullus because neither Octavia nor Livia champion him.
7
They call betroth her to another man upon the morn.
8
We will betroth our little Amina to this young master.
9
As we both know, we have been betrothed for two long years.
10
You would ask from your betrothed not her love but her pity.
11
Such were the thoughts which filled the mind of the envied betrothed.
12
In short, he was betrothed to the girl, and the wedding-day came.
13
Silently I stood upon the plain with my betrothed in my arms.
14
I was betrothed to you; you were rich and I was poor.
15
A woman dreamt in youth that she was betrothed to the Sun.
16
About this time he read in the newspaper that Elsbeth was betrothed.
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Translations for betroth
Catalan
Betroth through the time