tryst
noun
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
trysted
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past participleof tryst.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tryst.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
trystnounan appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
Example Sentences
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The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Sunday Times, edited by Bordes' former beau Neil, polled British national editors to find out if they too had trysted with Bordes.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was dwalling then in my faither's house; and it's a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in the Deil's Hags.
From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
I was dwalling then in my faither’s house; and it’s a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in the Deil’s Hags.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
But it would not do to be telling that to a man that would just have left his trysted wife.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
And as Richard Cameron said: "They that are trysted to the Bridegroom's work, must taigle themselves with no other marriage engagements!"
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
