Definition of betroth Betroth
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What does betroth mean?
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- betroth (Verb)
To promise to give in marriage. - betroth (Verb)
To promise to take as a future spouse; to plight one's troth to.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- betroth (v. t.)
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. - betroth (v. t.)
To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to. - betroth (v. t.)
To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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betroth
To enter an agreement to marry. -
betroth
To promise to give in marriage.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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betroth
be-troth′, v.t. to contract or promise in order to marriage: to affiance: (obs.) to pledge one's self to any cause.—ns. Betroth′al, Betroth′ment, an agreement or contract with a view to marriage. [Pfx. be-, and Troth or Truth.]
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🔤- betroth, verb, present, 1st person singular of betroth (infinitive).
- betroth, verb (infinitive).
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