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- Practice the English pronunciation of handfast with real speech in context.
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- (obsolete) A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
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A Deep Dive Into “handfast”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (obsolete) A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
- (obsolete) A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To pledge; to bind.
- (transitive, Scotland, archaic or historical except Wicca) To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow for cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally.
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
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