trothplight
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
adjective
noun
verb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of trothplight
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English trouth plight “having plighted troth, betrothed”; see origin at troth, plight 2
Example Sentences
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But in whatever sense Thornton and Maisie were trothplight, her father opposed their marriage, although it would no doubt have been a social elevation for the miller's daughter.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
It was not surprising that he should enter some protest against any but a spontaneous cancelling of Gwen's trothplight.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
“So many there are in the King’s garth Of Hafbur’s death shall be glad; Good reward for them to lose The trothplight mays they had.”
From Poems By the Way by Morris, William
Why should I not choose to go up on to the Island to deliver my trothplight maiden?
From The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men by Morris, William
Erst were they royal, sitting on the throne, And loving are they yet,—their common fate Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
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