释义 |
beˈtrothment (see betroth) = betrothal.
1585Expos. Canticles (R.) Making as it were thereby the betrothment. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 175, I said after Mr. Peters..the words of Betrothment. 1847Tennyson Princess v. 463 How the strange betrothment was to end. 1871Hawthorne Sept. Felton (1879) 50 When he gave her the kiss of betrothment. |