There are too manybetrothals between people of different districts: hence one may find women over thirty years of age still unmarried.
When betrothals are discussed it is considered by all disgraceful to hold mercenary views[114] or to aim at riches and honours.
Betrothals are always in practice arranged through go-betweens or middlemen (mei jên) who are understood to be the disinterested friends of both the contracting parties.
Betrothals are arranged when the principals are still in their swaddling-clothes, and thus (owing to deaths and other causes) marriages often fail to take place.
In place of taking women by force, at the risk of shedding kindred blood, peaceful betrothals between men and women of different local group names and of different names by descent could be arranged.
Until recently marriage has been adult, but girls are now wedded as children, and betrothals are sometimes arranged before they are born.
Betrothals are arranged between October and December, and the weddings take place three or four months later, from January to April.
On the other hand, it has been demonstrated by Sohm, contrary to the view previously accepted, that the two betrothals of the mediæval canon law are based on the German betrothal.
A record of betrothalscontracted in facie ecclesiae was not usually kept; but at least one such entry has been discovered.
Thus in Tibet but one of the husbands was usually at home; and among the Todas betrothals are made with the condition that each of the husbands should live with the wife a month by turns: ibid.
As a rule, the courts tended to treat all secret betrothals followed by actual connubial life as binding marriages.
I would go and fetch the barber to begin the betrothals at once, but I am so faint with hunger just at present that I should never reach the village.
The manner in which Tippa Malku betrothals are arranged deserves attention.
These betrothals are generally arranged by the maternal parents together with the mother.
Lovers in their betrothals engaged to observe it reciprocally.
In betrothals there was but a bridegroom that asked and a father that gave.
Footnote 575: So also in Holland, it is interesting to note, bundling appears in connection with the practice of public betrothals as the cause of ante-nuptial transgressions.
The church further declared that females between the ages of seven and twelve, and males between seven and fourteen, could be betrothed, but not married, and that all such betrothals were to be public.
The ill-defined laws as to betrothals tended to encourage abuses; and the people, especially in the rural districts, inclined to hold betrothal sufficient justification for cohabitation.
He spoke of their engagement as though it were a betrothal, as betrothals used to be of yore; as though they were already in some sort married.
But how was George to know that she was firmly determined to throw those odious betrothals to the wind?
The man to whom she was betrothed was still in the house; and, though she was quite secure that the betrothals would now be absolutely annulled, still she would not actually entertain another lover till this was done.
You know that to-day sees the betrothal of my nephew, and it is the ancient custom of our family to celebrate betrothals and marriages with village music.
Other betrothals and marriages of the princes and princesses ensued; but the still lamented death of the Prince Consort intervened before one of those betrothals culminated in marriage.
The only thing that is certain is his misanthropic view of the betrothalsand marriages that have come under his observation.
The latter daring book at that time occupied every Norwegian mind; and it contained the same witty, though rather less well planned attack on betrothals and marriages that in Ibsen's drama is conducted by a firm, manly hand.
Dispensations were to be granted by the legate or the pope for all existing marriages and betrothals within the prohibited degrees, but future ones must conform to the canons.
We have seen the question raised in the Concordia of 1528, with the result that existing marriages and betrothals were dispensed for, but that future ones must conform to the canons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betrothals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
