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English
Etymology
From un- + betrothed.
Adjective
unbetrothed (not comparable)
- Not betrothed.
1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:Elizabeth in consequence remained unbetrothed, and her father soon afterwards secured to himself a more strenuous ally in the earl of Lenox, also of the blood-royal of Scotland, by bestowing upon this nobleman the hand, not of his daughter, but of his niece the lady Margaret Douglas.
1922, Fay-Cooper Cole, The Tinguian:The early pledging and marriage of the children has reduced illicit sexual intercourse to a minimum; nevertheless, it sometimes happens that an unbetrothed girl, not a pota, is found to be pregnant.