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Meanings of formal engagement in English

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Usage of formal engagement in English
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If you have entered into no formal engagement you are surely free.
Spring Days
2
Shortly after their formal engagement he was shot down over the Pacific but quickly rescued.
The Guardian
3
I therefore ask your consent to our formal engagement.
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
4
This, however, is a mere frolic of the affections, and no formal engagement is contracted.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
5
Is there an actual and formal engagement, I ask?
All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
6
It's not a formal engagement even yet, but she has promised to bear it in mind.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
7
At Lygia's insistence, all the women invited to the formal engagement dinner were to wear long dresses.
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
8
There was no formal engagement between them.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green
9
At least, there was no formal engagement.
The White Sister
10
Geldershaw shall write you a formal engagement.'
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
11
Promise me there shall be no formal engagement, and I will let him come now and then.
Put Yourself in His Place
12
It was one of those spiritual loves; a formal engagement with a ring would have spoiled it-coarsenedit.
They and I
13
To occupy his attention, a formal engagement was made by the government to send succor to the Netherlands.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 17: 1570-72
14
Lyla dutifully, at once, married Narf by proxy, which is like a legally binding formal engagement under Vestan law.
—And Devious the Line of Duty
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You and Deborah can have such understanding with each other as you wish; but I object to a formal engagement.
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
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However Dario distrustfully inquired: "But was he made to sign anything, did he enter into a formal engagement?"
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
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