Both Uses of
betrothed
in
David Copperfield
- When we had our first great quarrel (within a week of our betrothal), and when Dora sent me back the ring, enclosed in a despairing cocked-hat note, wherein she used the terrible expression that 'our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!' which dreadful words occasioned me to tear my hair, and cry that all was over!†
Chpt 31-33
- I was in a flutter of pride and anxiety; pride in my dear little betrothed, and anxiety that Agnes should like her.†
Chpt 40-42 *
Definition:
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(betrothed) promised to marry; or the person who has promised to marry