betroth

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈtɹəʊð/|/-ˈtɹəʊθ/    美 /bəˈtɹoʊð/|/-ˈtɹɔθ/|/bɪˈtɹəʉð/|/bɪˈtɹɐʉð/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of a man: to promise to take (a woman) as a future spouse; to plight one's troth to. archaic,formal,transitive
    — And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him goe and returne vnto his houſe, leſt he die in battel, and another man take her.
  2. Often of a parent or guardian: to promise that (two people) be married to each other; specifically and chiefly, to promise that (a woman) be given in marriage to a man; to affiance. archaic,formal,transitive
    — He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.
  3. Of God: to enter into a relationship with (believers, or the church as a whole); also, of a priest: to pledge (himself) to the church prior to being consecrated as a bishop. archaic,figuratively,formal,transitive
    — And I [God] will betroth thee [his people] vnto me foreuer; yea, I will betroth thee vnto me in righteouſneſſe, and in iudgement, and in louing kindneſſe, and in mercies. I will euen betroth thee vnto me in faithfulneſſe, and thou ſhalt know the Lord.
  4. To pledge or promise oneself to (a cause); to espouse; also (sometimes reflexive), to pledge or promise (oneself or one's efforts) to a cause or to do something. figuratively,formal,obsolete,transitive
    — To priuate fight they haue betroutht themſelues, / Of which conflicte, the end muſt needes be this, / That one do liue, that other die the death.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
betrothable betrothal betrothed betrothing betrothment troth
相关词
engagement fiancé fiancée

词源

From Middle English bitrouthen, bitreuthen (“of a man: to pledge to marry; to give (a woman) in marriage, arrange the marriage of”), from bi- (prefix forming transitive verbs from nouns) + trouth, treuthe (“faithfulness, fidelity, specifically marital fidelity; promise, undertaking, specifically a promise of marriage; truth; etc.”) (from Old English trīewþ, trēowþ (“fidelity; good faith, honour; assurance of good faith, covenant, troth; truth”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree; hence, firm, hard; faithful, true”)), possibly modelled after Old English trēowsian (“to pledge oneself; to prove oneself to be true”)). By surface analysis, be- + troth.
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