Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Faithless; treacherous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Faitless; false; treacherous.

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  • adjective archaic false; treacherous

Etymologies

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troth +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Now take thou my defiance as a traitor, trothless knight:

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • Then, good father, pardon the injury that I have done to you, only causing your grief, by over-fond affecting a man so trothless.

    Fair Em 1590

  • a trustie friende, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • "parallelism" is made more pointed by means of alliteration, e.g. "shrined thee for a trusty friend," "shun thee as a trothless foe"; musk

    John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

  • Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty.

    John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

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