society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > betroth [verb (reflexive)] (2)
affiance1609
transitive (reflexive). To betroth oneself; to become engaged to be married. Usually with to (also †unto).
handfast1611
transitive. Of a man: to engage in a marriage contract with (a woman); (also reflexive) to promise oneself in marriage to or †unto a woman. Also figur…