Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A betrothal.
- v. To betroth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Betrothed; espoused; affianced.
- To betroth or affiance.
- n. The act of betrothing or plighting faith, whether in friendship or in marriage.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To betroth.
- adj. obsolete Betrothed; espoused; affianced.
- n. obsolete The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing.
Etymologies
- troth + plight (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm.”
“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 sort of semi-trothplight she had just hushed into silence would do for a good long time to come, because she understood”
“That feast-day that made trothplight death and me,”
Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III
“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
“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
“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.”
“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
“Indeed I shall be very well; I shall have work to occupy me and duties to interest me; indeed I shall be happy, Ishmael; indeed I shall; and I shall always love you, as a little sister loves her dearest brother; so take your trothplight back again, dear, and with it take my prayers for your happiness, "said Bee, beginning to draw the engagement ring from her finger.”
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Fun-Sounding Words
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rememberers
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Interesting Words
Fun-to-say words, words with interesting uses, archaic words, etc. that I love to drop in a conversation.
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marrymemckean the obvious connotation, which is evident in half of the examples, is not in the definitions... how does one update these dagblasted entries anyhow? ^_^ Jan 28, 2010