Associations to the word «Betroth»

Wiktionary

BETROTH, verb. To promise to give in marriage.
BETROTH, verb. To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

Dictionary definition

BETROTH, verb. Give to in marriage.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne