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1. To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; used especially. Of a woman. "He, in the first flower of my freshest age, Betrothed me unto the only heir." (Spenser) "Ay, and we are betrothed." (Shak)
2. To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to. "What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her?" (Deut. Xx. 7)
3. To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
Origin: Pref. Be- + troth, i. E, truth. See Truth.
(01 Mar 1998)
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