All 42 Uses of
betrothed
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He compromised the girl by his promise of marriage, now she is an orphan and here; she is betrothed to him, yet before her very eyes he is dancing attendance on a certain enchantress.†
Chpt 2 *
- "I thought ...I thought," he said, in a soft and, as it were, controlled voice, "that I was coming to my native place with the angel of my heart, my betrothed, to cherish his old age, and I find nothing but a depraved profligate, a despicable clown!"†
Chpt 2
- And you, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, have abandoned your betrothed for that 'creature,' so you must yourself have thought that your betrothed couldn't hold a candle to her.†
Chpt 2
- And you, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, have abandoned your betrothed for that 'creature,' so you must yourself have thought that your betrothed couldn't hold a candle to her.†
Chpt 2
- Since he has openly abandoned his betrothed for her, he doesn't despise her.†
Chpt 2
- He's trying to get Mitya's betrothed for himself, and I fancy he'll succeed, too.†
Chpt 2
- For Mitya will surrender his betrothed to him to be rid of her, and escape to Grushenka.†
Chpt 2
- to abandon his betrothed, a rare beauty, Katerina Ivanovna, who's rich, and the daughter of a colonel, and to marry Grushenka, who has been the mistress of a dissolute old merchant, Samsonov, a coarse, uneducated, provincial mayor.†
Chpt 2
- For I know as a fact that Mitya only last week, when he was with some gypsy girls drunk in a tavern, cried out aloud that he was unworthy of his betrothed, Katya, but that his brother Ivan, he was the man who deserved her.†
Chpt 2
- Tell me, you were betrothed, you are betrothed still?†
Chpt 3
- Tell me, you were betrothed, you are betrothed still?†
Chpt 3
- We weren't betrothed at once, not for three months after that adventure.†
Chpt 3
- To a monster who, though he is betrothed and all eyes are fixed on him, can't restrain his debaucheries—and before the very eyes of his betrothed!†
Chpt 3
- To a monster who, though he is betrothed and all eyes are fixed on him, can't restrain his debaucheries—and before the very eyes of his betrothed!†
Chpt 3
- There's one thing you haven't made clear yet: you are still betrothed all the same, aren't you?†
Chpt 3
- How can you break off the engagement if she, your betrothed, doesn't want to?†
Chpt 3
- Yes, formally and solemnly betrothed.†
Chpt 3
- Can a betrothed man pay such visits?†
Chpt 3
- Is such a thing possible and with such a betrothed, and before the eyes of all the world?†
Chpt 3
- As soon as I began visiting Grushenka, I ceased to be betrothed, and to be an honest man.†
Chpt 3
- He expressed this thought almost plainly to Dmitri when, after the visit, his brother besought and insisted that he should not conceal his impressions on seeing his betrothed.†
Chpt 3
- Let him forget me as his betrothed.†
Chpt 3
- He is doing his utmost to carry off Mitya's betrothed.†
Chpt 4
- Besides if Mitya marries Grushenka, Ivan will carry off his rich betrothed, that's what he's reckoning on!†
Chpt 4
- Is that betrothed of his, Katerina Ivanovna, whom he has kept so carefully hidden from me all this time, going to marry him or not?†
Chpt 4
- You see it's not by way of compensation to prevent him from taking proceedings (for I believe he meant to), but simply a token of sympathy, of a desire to assist him from me, Dmitri Fyodorovitch's betrothed, not from himself....But you know....I would go myself, but you'll know how to do it ever so much better.†
Chpt 4
- That same brother of mine, Dmitri, has insulted his betrothed, too, a noble-hearted girl of whom you have probably heard.†
Chpt 4
- The worst of it all was that, as I learned then, the young landowner had been a long while betrothed to her, and I had met him indeed many times in her house, but blinded by my conceit I had noticed nothing.†
Chpt 6
- Then he brought out and laid on the table all the things he had been keeping for fourteen years, that he thought would prove his crime, the jewels belonging to the murdered woman which he had stolen to divert suspicion, a cross and a locket taken from her neck with a portrait of her betrothed in the locket, her notebook and two letters; one from her betrothed, telling her that he would soon be with her, and her unfinished answer left on the table to be sent off next day.†
Chpt 6
- Then he brought out and laid on the table all the things he had been keeping for fourteen years, that he thought would prove his crime, the jewels belonging to the murdered woman which he had stolen to divert suspicion, a cross and a locket taken from her neck with a portrait of her betrothed in the locket, her notebook and two letters; one from her betrothed, telling her that he would soon be with her, and her unfinished answer left on the table to be sent off next day.†
Chpt 6
- Gentlemen, she is my betrothed!" he said ecstatically and reverently, looking round at them all.†
Chpt 9
- You see, a month ago, I was sent for by Katerina Ivanovna, formerly my betrothed.†
Chpt 9
- It seemed strange to Alyosha, too, that in spite of the calamity that had overtaken the poor girl, betrothed to a man who had been arrested for a terrible crime, almost at the instant of their betrothal, in spite of her illness and the almost inevitable sentence hanging over Mitya, Grushenka had not yet lost her youthful cheerfulness.†
Chpt 11
- It seemed strange to Alyosha, too, that in spite of the calamity that had overtaken the poor girl, betrothed to a man who had been arrested for a terrible crime, almost at the instant of their betrothal, in spite of her illness and the almost inevitable sentence hanging over Mitya, Grushenka had not yet lost her youthful cheerfulness.†
Chpt 11
- It was supposed afterwards that he had come to stay with them as Marya Kondratyevna's betrothed, and was living there for a time without paying for board or lodging.†
Chpt 11
- But in answer to one of the first questions Katerina Ivanovna replied firmly that she had been formerly betrothed to the prisoner, "until he left me of his own accord..." she added quietly.†
Chpt 12
- He, he, the girl's betrothed, looked at her with that smile of mockery, which was more insufferable from him than from any one.†
Chpt 12
- While I have that money on me, he said, I am a scoundrel, not a thief, for I can always go to my insulted betrothed, and, laying down half the sum I have fraudulently appropriated, I can always say to her, 'You see, I've squandered half your money, and shown I am a weak and immoral man, and, if you like, a scoundrel' (I use the prisoner's own expressions), 'but though I am a scoundrel, I am not a thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn't have brought you back this half of the money, but should have taken it as I did the other half!'†
Chpt 12
- The talented young man, to whom I have referred already, Mr. Rakitin, characterized this heroine in brief and impressive terms: 'She was disillusioned early in life, deceived and ruined by a betrothed, who seduced and abandoned her.†
Chpt 12
- After a month of hopeless love and moral degradation, during which he betrayed his betrothed and appropriated money entrusted to his honor, the prisoner was driven almost to frenzy, almost to madness by continual jealousy—and of whom?†
Chpt 12
- A man of weak will, who had brought himself to take the three thousand so insultingly offered by his betrothed, could not, we are told, have set aside half and sewn it up, but would, even if he had done so, have unpicked it every two days and taken out a hundred, and so would have spent it all in a month.†
Chpt 12
- I shall be told, perhaps, there are witnesses that he spent on one day all that three thousand given him by his betrothed a month before the catastrophe, so he could not have divided the sum in half.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
promised to marry; or the person who has promised to marry