The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BETROTH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BETROTH
- Promise to put a wager on US novelist
- Promise to marry novelist after a wager
- Promise to marry is nonsense, Liz accepts?
- What’s that about Communist undermining British pledge?
- Plight of regular setter to break into two
- Promise to marry stranger who is in the soup
- Promise novelist after a wager
- Gamble leads to Remainer offering trivial half-baked promise
- Contract to marry little woman includes rubbish
- Contract to marry little woman includes drivel
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What does BETROTH mean?
BETROTH verb- To promise to give in marriage.
- To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.