Eksempler på betroth

• Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a betrothed.

• The two women to whom he is either betrothed or married are more forthcoming, however.

• Especially noteworthy in this respect were relations between betrothed, since a man would not marry a woman who could not bear children.

• In this case a young woman, already betrothed, had revealed her preference for another man.

• The proclamation of healing, the quitting of their bedrooms by the newly betrothed, and the declaration of a three-day fast are significant elements in that legend.

• He was betrothed and qualified as a journeyman.

• Gawain leaves the spot perplexed but soon gains an inkling of the circumstances when he encounters a maiden who happen to be the knight's betrothed.

• The verbal consent between a man and a woman to marry, even if not betrothed, is enough to make their marriage binding.

• The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students.

• The prince is betrothed to the older one, much to the sadness of the younger one who has loved him all her life.

• They start a life seeking each other's troubles when they are bound by an ancient practice: being betrothed in the womb.

• They were betrothed when both were very young.

• In ancient and medieval societies, it was common for girls to be betrothed at or even before puberty.

• Taken into service thus, he betrothed and later wed.

• Amalia fails to recognise her betrothed when he approaches her.