Word Meanings - BETROTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

• Womanlike
  Like a woman; womanly.
• Contractor
  One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
• Orderless
  Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
• Orderliness
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• Womanliness
  The quality or state of being womanly.
• Contracture
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
• Orderlies
  of Orderly
• CONTRACTTABLET
  A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
• Affianced
  of Affiance
• WOMANHEADWOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.
• Affiancer
  One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.
• Engagedly
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• Promised
  of Promise
• WOMANSCHRISTIANTEMPERANCEUNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

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