Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To betroth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To betroth.
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- verb transitive, archaic To
betroth .
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Examples
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Anon came a voice out of the oracle and said that, all they that were of the house of David that were convenable to be married and had no wife, that each of them should bring a rod to the altar, and his rod that flourished, and, after the saying of Isaiah, the Holy Ghost sit in the form of a dove on it, he should be the man that should be desponsate and married to the Virgin Mary.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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