Synonyms
Examples for "betroth"
Examples for "betroth"
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
As we both know, we have been betrothed for two long years.
4
You would ask from your betrothed not her love but her pity.
5
Such were the thoughts which filled the mind of the envied betrothed.
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?"