Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having plighted troth; pledged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having fidelity pledged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective dated Having
pledged one'stroth ;engaged ;promised .
Etymologies
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troth + plighted
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Examples
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"Since you make so great a claim on Maggie, you may; but why did she not write to you, if you were trothplighted?"
A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all.’
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
hernesheir commented on the word trothplighted
betrothed, engaged to be wed.
August 28, 2009