BETROTH

betroth

Verb

  1. To promise to give in marriage.
    He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.
  2. To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
    What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? — Deuteronomy.


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