jilt
[jilt]
- to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
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- a woman who jilts a lover.
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Origin of jilt
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Examples from the Web for jilted
Contemporary Examples
The Kafranbel posters have jilted both the regime and the rising tide of al-Qaeda affiliated Islamists inside Syria.
Never married and approaching 40, his last long-term relationship ended in a jilted bride and returned registry items.
The right wing is like a vulnerable adolescent who has suddenly been jilted.
And they know Newt Gingrich is nothing more than a jilted lover at this point, so they will discount his broadsides.
Seems neither of the jilted lovers plans to make it easy for the new couple.
Historical Examples
But what makes me sick is to have everyone saying you've jilted me.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
But I hope the poor man, though I don't like him, has not been jilted?
Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
She jilted him with a jolt that knocked his heart out of his mouth.
In a Little TownRupert Hughes
He had become engaged to a certain Miss Mary Tremenhere, and by her he had been—jilted.
Kept in the DarkAnthony Trollope
It was said truly of him that the girl had jilted him, but falsely of her that she had been jilted.
Kept in the DarkAnthony Trollope
jilt
- (tr) to leave or reject (a lover), esp without previous warningshe was jilted at the altar
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- a woman who jilts a lover
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Word Origin
C17: from dialect jillet flighty girl, diminutive of proper name Gill
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Word Origin and History for jilted
jilt
v.
"to deceive (especially after holding out hopes), cheat, trick," 1660s, from the same source as jilt (n.). Related: Jilted; jilting.
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jilt
n.
1670s, "loose, unchaste woman; harlot;" also "woman who gives hope then dashes it," perhaps ultimately from Middle English gille "lass, wench," a familiar or contemptuous term for a woman or girl (mid-15c.), originally a shortened form of woman's name Gillian (see Jill).
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