trothplight
English
Etymology
Noun
trothplight (plural trothplights)
- (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)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)