(see BETROTH). = BETROTHAL.

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1585.  Expos. Canticles (R.). Making as it were thereby the betrothment.

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1741.  Richardson, Pamela, II. 175. I said after Mr. Peters … the words of Betrothment.

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1847.  Tennyson, Princess, V. 463. How the strange betrothment was to end.

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1871.  Hawthorne, Sept. Felton (1879), 50. When he gave her the kiss of betrothment.

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