Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A betrothal.
- transitive verb To betroth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of betrothing or plighting faith, whether in friendship or in marriage.
- To betroth or affiance.
- Betrothed; espoused; affianced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To betroth.
- adjective obsolete Betrothed; espoused; affianced.
- noun obsolete The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.
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- noun obsolete The act of
pledging one'stroth ;betrothal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm.
The Choephori 2002
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Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm.
The Choephori 2002
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Even were you free of your trothplight -- even were I free of my prison, most beautiful lady, I have naught to offer you yonder in that fair land of France.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm.
The House of Atreus 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880
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The sort of semi-trothplight she had just hushed into silence would do for a good long time to come, because she understood
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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That feast-day that made trothplight death and me,
Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Be this land as waste as the trothplight that the lips of fools have sworn!
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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"Nay, I deem it not," said Hallblithe: "But, tell me, is it verily true that my trothplight is not here, that I may ransom her?"
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865
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"I know it, I know he loves me much, John; but he has promised me to the Stanleys, and when I told him of our trothplight he laughed, and said he was doing it all for the best.
Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday
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"Why should I not choose to go up on to the Island to deliver my trothplight maiden?
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865
marrymemckean commented on the word trothplight
the obvious connotation, which is evident in half of the examples, is not in the definitions... how does one update these dagblasted entries anyhow? ^_^
January 28, 2010