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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
betroth .
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Examples
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After she has borne him children, Jason betrays her and betroths himself to Glauce, the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, to seek his own political power.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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After she has borne him children, Jason betrays her and betroths himself to Glauce, the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, to seek his own political power.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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This legal act — a type of eminent domain, or legal confiscation of property — would retroactively invalidate the formal requirements of the halakhic marriage contract that the wedding ring with which a husband betroths his wife must belong to him.
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He said “I am indebted to you, and if one betroths a woman by [way of repaying] a debt, the betrothal is not in force.”
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What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
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'What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?' he asks his chief henchman, Borachio, who has brought him intelligence of an intended marriage.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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King Nabob Naga betroths his daughter, Princess Nada, to Prince Dolph, making a naga-human alliance.
Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991
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King Nabob Naga betroths his daughter, Princess Nada, to Prince Dolph, making a naga-human alliance.
Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991
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God, by little and little, various workings and reasonings of the Spirit by the word upon the heart and affections, doth allure them from their former state, draws them aside to himself in the wilderness, there treats with them, and by little and little speaks comfort unto them; and so at length makes up the marriage covenant, which he mentions in verse 19, and "betroths them to himself for ever."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The Lord, when he betroths us to himself, sees and knows what we are, what we will be, and how we will provoke the eyes of his glory.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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