trothless

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English

Etymology

troth +‎ -less

Adjective

trothless (comparative more trothless, superlative most trothless)

  1. (archaic) false; treacherous
    • (Can we date this quote by Fairfax and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 trothless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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