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Betroth vs Unbetrothed - What's the difference?

betroth | unbetrothed |

As a verb betroth

is to promise to give in marriage.

As an adjective unbetrothed is

not betrothed.

betroth

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To promise to give in marriage.
    • He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.
  • * 1885 —
    • We loved each other at once, but she was betrothed to her guardian Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor.
  • To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
    • What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? — Deuteronomy.

    Derived terms

    * *

    See also

    * affiance * * * plight * troth * marriage

    unbetrothed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not betrothed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1818, author=Lucy Aikin, title=Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Elizabeth in consequence remained unbetrothed , and her father soon afterwards secured to himself a more strenuous ally in the earl of Lenox, also of the blood-royal of Scotland, by bestowing upon this nobleman the hand, not of his daughter, but of his niece the lady Margaret Douglas. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Fay-Cooper Cole, title=The Tinguian, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The early pledging and marriage of the children has reduced illicit sexual intercourse to a minimum; nevertheless, it sometimes happens that an unbetrothed girl, not a pota , is found to be pregnant. }}