trothplight

English

Etymology

troth +‎ plight

Noun

trothplight (plural trothplights)

  1. (obsolete) The act of pledging one's troth; betrothal.
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Verb

trothplight (third-person singular simple present trothplights, present participle trothplighting, simple past and past participle trothplighted)

  1. To betroth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trothplight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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