Read full poem →And on the fourth I spake of why we came,
And my betroth’d. “You do us, Prince,” he said,
Airing a snowy hand and signet gem, 120
Dictionary Entry
To promise to give in marriage.
In a Sentence
“He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
thee betrothherself betroththemselves betrothbetroth evenbetroth shalt
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Poetry examples for “betroth”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Now it chanced that I had been, 30
While life was yet in bud and blade, betroth’d
To one, a neighboring Princess : she to me
Read full poem →When my Soule was in her owne body sheath'd,
Nor yet by oathes betroth'd, nor kisses breath'd
Into my Purgatory, faithlesse thee,