(v. t.) To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
(v. t.) To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
(v. t.) To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Back in London, I had word that Estella was betrothed to Bentley Drummle, a loathsome ne-er-do-well from my lunching club.
(2) Concomitant with the reintroduction of the ancient European betrothal system, the adolescent age of first coitus has lowered and averages two years earlier than first contraception.
(3) The peculiar thing about the opera is that the back story – war, slayings, the murder of the Irish princess Isolde's betrothed by the Cornish knight Tristan, her determination to kill the latter, her failure to do so, the way she healed Tristan's wounds and kept his identity secret – is more interesting than the story itself, which revolves around the pair not quite being able to make love despite drinking a love potion (substituted by Isolde's lady-in-waiting Brangäne for the poison with which Isolde intended to kill both Tristan and herself as they journeyed to Cornwall, where she was to marry boring old King Marke).
(4) Are Nicola Sturgeon and the majority within her party really so betrothed to the idea of the UK being part of the European Union that she is comfortable with Mr Blair sliding on to the same platform?
(5) Though not so much as to accept the impertinent offer of marriage from Mr Guppy, for – if it is not too much to hope – I rather think that in 500 pages or so I may be betrothed to the handsome and warm-hearted Dr Woodcourt who gave me some reason for encouragement before leaving the narrative after being nice to Young Jo.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Tyrells of the Reach Margaery Tyrell has King Joffrey, her betrothed, firmly under her thumb, much to the chagrin of Cersei.
(7) The shrewd reader will regard the final betrothal of Emma and Mr Knightley as inevitable, from the moment we know that he is the only person ever to find fault with her.
(8) "There was only one saving grace," he wrote in his autobiography Dear Me (1977), which sold a million copies, "and that was that I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the universe."
(9) The engaged couple were reported to have celebrated their betrothal in the hotel's bar, drinking champagne and cocktails with other guests.
(10) There you are, betrothed to your beloved, but something goes wrong and it is broken off in tears and recriminations.
Fiance
Definition:
(v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.
(n.) A betrothed man.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(2) I had to continue my run, performing jokes every night about my wonderful fiance.
(3) He was described as a much-loved son, dad, fiance, brother and cousin.
(4) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(5) She gave up acting and is now a freelance writer – her first book, Everyday Sexism, comes out in the spring – and lives in north London with her fiance, an actor.
(6) The baby was using up all her energy so she was lying in bed with the radio on, trying to get some rest at the chaotic refugee camp in West Germany where she had fled a few months earlier, leaving her fiance, Fried, back on the east side.
(7) Last year she had another child, a son with her fiance who is also a recovering addict.
(8) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(9) Her fiance, Walton, has moved clubs a lot recently, "and you don't know whether you're coming or going.
(10) This is also what Castile’s fiance Diamond Reynolds relayed in the Facebook Live video she began streaming just moments after the shots were fired, which went viral across the US.
(11) Neither do fiance(e)s. These relationships, apparently, are not “bona fide”.
(12) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.
(13) John Prescott And Tracey Temple, April 2006, Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror broke the story after Barrie Williams, Tracey Temple's fiance, told them he'd become suspicious she might be having an affair after she started moaning 'DPM' (for Deputy Prime Minister) in her sleep.
(14) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(15) Think back to His Girl Friday, in which Rosalind Russell juggles fiance, ex-husband, speed-of-light dialogue and the ethics of journalism, wears extravagant hats and performs an impressive rugby tackle.
(16) Gillian Taylforth v the Sun, 1994 One of Carman's most celebrated victories, the EastEnders actress lost her libel over a report that she had performed oral sex on her fiance in a layby on the A1 after the QC produced one of his famous 11th-hour rabbits from a hat: a video of Ms Taylforth holding a bottle proclaiming to her fellow partygoers "I give good head".
(17) Her fiance, another police officer, was at her side.
(18) And, almost as ominous, we see the attempts of shelf-stacker Ginger, under Jasmine's influence, to swap her car-mechanic fiance, Chilli, for a more middle-class model.
(19) She was no rock thrower at the vanguard of a movement for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young woman who may have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(20) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, the newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.