Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespoused
Literary usage of Bespoused
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old English Homilies of the Twelfth Century: From the Unique Ms. B. 14. 52 by Richard Morris (1873)
"One of the holy epistles that is read herein to-day brings us blissful tidings
of a blessed maiden who was bespoused to the heavenly king as his wife, ..."
2. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"... When as his mother Mary was :bespoused to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child of the Holy C¡host. 19 Then Joseph her husband, ..."
3. Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Wörterbuch by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner, Hugo Bieling (1867)
"Man kann dafür anführen: That ich singe bi manne huse. An leache wif breke spule
OAN 1331. Anderweitig könnte man geneigt sein zu schreiben bespoused, ..."
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