beˈtrothment
(see betroth)
= betrothal.
| 1585 Expos. Canticles (R.) Making as it were thereby the betrothment. 1741 Richardson Pamela II. 175, I said after Mr. Peters..the words of Betrothment. 1847 Tennyson Princess v. 463 How the strange betrothment was to end. 1871 Hawthorne Sept. Felton (1879) 50 When he gave her the kiss of betrothment. |