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A promise wearing a person, scheduled for delivery at the altar.
means Engaged to be married; pledged to another by a formal promise of marriage.
from From Middle English betrouthen, built from be- plus trouthe, the older form of 'truth' — which once meant not a fact but a pledge, one's given word. To be betrothed is literally to be 'be-truthed': bound by truth in its oldest sense, where truth and a sworn promise were the same thing. The same trouthe survives in the wedding vow 'I plight thee my troth.'
- old grammar
- From troth, meaning truth or pledged faith
- binding act
- Once broken, it could trigger actual lawsuits
- child clauses
- Royals were betrothed before learning to walk
- ring origin
- Engagement rings began as betrothal down payments