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trothplight en · NOUN

Etymology

From troth + plight.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) betrothal.
   • My Wife's a Holy-Horse, deserues a Name As ranke as any Flax-Wench, that puts to Before her troth-plight: say't, and iustify't. c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
trothplights	Number=Plur		lexicographic

trothplight en · VERB

Etymology

From troth + plight.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To betroth.
   • It is certaine Corporall, that he is marryed to Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you were troth-plight to her 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
trothplighted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
trothplighted	Tense=Past		lexicographic
trothplighting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
trothplight	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
trothplight	Tense=Past		lexicographic
trothplights	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic