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marrying off

vb. (present participle of marry off English)

Usage examples of "marrying off".

The earl too, would benefit by keeping his own son safe and by marrying off his only daughter to a respectable man.

Kao knew that Lin Wan meant to double-cross him by marrying off Josephine to Tu-lai or one of his other sons.

Jason looked harried these days, more so than the flurry entailed in marrying off his youngest brother would account for.

And I put her through a most searching test which, being Elspeth, she interrupted from time to time with her serious observations on Mrs Morrison's chances of marrying off the two chits.

She gave a start -- she really had been thinking about marrying off those women!

Cadfael viewed it with some interest as they passed, for this was one of the two manors which Dame Dionisia hoped to secure to the Ludel estate by marrying off Richard to the girl Hiltrude Astley.

How, he wondered, did Lord Lu Tung really feel about marrying off his only daughter to the son of the man he had so recently tried to depose?