betrothing

Use effects this; because love and wisdom are delighted with each other, and as it were sport together like little children; and as they grow up, they enter into genial conjunction, which is effected by a kind of betrothing, nuptial solemnity, marriage, and propagation, and this with continual variety to eternity.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

I do you the honor, Professor Smith, the very great honor of betrothing to you my and Vesta Van Warden's daughter.

Page 7 2010

Running full-tilt from her fundamentalist roots, Coolbrith married young, betrothing herself to a wastrel Los Angeles musician named Robert Carsley.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Running full-tilt from her fundamentalist roots, Coolbrith married young, betrothing herself to a wastrel Los Angeles musician named Robert Carsley.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

He is not the man to whom my father ever thought of betrothing me.

Electra 2008

He is not the man to whom my father ever thought of betrothing me.

Electra 2008

After betrothing himself to the maiden, he sets forth in search of further adventures, and falls into the power of an evil race, who by their magic arts lure him to them, cause his destruction, and then obtain his treasure and the maiden for themselves.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

What had she been doing in betrothing herself to this man!

A Changed Man 2006

His object, in short, was to insist on parental authority, giving to parental authority some little additional strength from his own sacerdotal recognition of the sanctity of the betrothing promise.

The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

Pratt was the oldest friend he had in the world, and it had happened that when he first woke to the misery that he had prepared for himself in throwing over Lily and betrothing himself to his late wife, Pratt had been the first person to whom he had communicated his sorrow.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004