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betroth someone to someone
to promise someone in marriage to someone else. The king betrothed his daughter to a prince from the neighboring kingdom. She betrothed herself to one of the peasant boys from the village.


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I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, in love and kindness and in compassion, And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, then you will know the Lord".
As Audrey flapped her bingo wings over going/not going to watch Bev betroth Fred, the Renfrewshire rasper was breaking his heart on auld Aud's salon wireless, crooning about Last Requests and lost loves.
 
 
 
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