To promise to give in marriage.
Синонимы
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?"
Grammar, pronunciation and more