Betroth

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  • transitive verb. To promise to give in marriage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To contract to give in marriage to another; promise or pledge one's troth for the marriage of; affiance.
  • To engage to take in marriage; pledge one's troth to marry.
  • To nominate to a bishopric in order to consecration.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
  • transitive verb. To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
  • transitive verb. To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To promise to give in marriage.
  • verb. To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. give to in marriage
    • Word Usage
    "They call betroth her to another man upon the morn."
    Form
    betrothed  betrothing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vow  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    enamoured  escrow  frank-hearted  nay  quarry-slave  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affiance  affy  bind  contract  engage  
    verb-form
    betrothed  betrothing  betroths  
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