Definition of "betrothing" []

• Present participle of betroth. (verb)

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• "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."
• "I do you the honor, Professor Smith, the very great honor of betrothing to you my and Vesta Van Warden's daughter."
• "Running full-tilt from her fundamentalist roots, Coolbrith married young, betrothing herself to a wastrel Los Angeles musician named Robert Carsley."