Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Faithless; treacherous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Faitless; false; treacherous.
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- adjective archaic
false ;treacherous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now take thou my defiance as a traitor, trothless knight:
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Then, good father, pardon the injury that I have done to you, only causing your grief, by over-fond affecting a man so trothless.
Fair Em 1590
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a trustie friende, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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"parallelism" is made more pointed by means of alliteration, e.g. "shrined thee for a trusty friend," "shun thee as a trothless foe"; musk
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty.
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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