Assertion: betrothal | /r/HasProperty | celebrated before priest
Facets:
value: publicly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: A betrothal, however, might also be publicly celebrated before a priest; for this and other reasons that will be discussed more fully in the next chapter, canonists and theologians from the twelfth century on distinguished a betrothal from a wedding according to the tense used in expressing the consent to be married: the words of consent in the future tense, or verba de futuro, that characterized a betrothal were no more than a promise of future marriage, whereas words of consent in the present tense, or verba de praesenti, created the indissoluble marriage bond.