jilt
verb (used with object)
to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
jilter
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a word derived from
jilt.
Example Sentences
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Campbell manages to make you empathise with the jilter.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2017
Severance had not known or guessed how the girl had said to herself that, if there were a question of jilting, she wished to be the jilter, not the jilted.
From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
His tarriance full spent, he departed And met me in Venice, And lines from her told that my jilter Was stooping to sue.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Miss Hampton had been jilted years ago, Martha said, and the name of the jilter was David Armstrong.
From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis
