handfast

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.

   “And the remembrancer of her to hold The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that”

2. isim A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal.
3. fiil To pledge; to bind.
4. fiil To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow for cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally.

   “Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […]”

5. sıfat Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.

   “A vyrgine made handfast to Christ.”

6. sıfat Strong; steadfast.