ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Engaged for marriage, affianced. Often subst.
a. 1547. Surrey, Compl. louer that defied loue, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 8 (R.). The new betrothed birdis ycoupled how they went.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., I. 286. That iustly may Beare his Betroth’d, from all the world away.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxxi. [Thus] ended the trials and sorrows of The Betrothed.
1884. Lucy B. Walford, Baby’s Grandmother, II. xviii. 53. One of the three was his betrothed bride.
† 2. Plighted, pledged. Obs.
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., xiv. § 18. 226. No conscience of contracts and betrothed faith can withhold them.
