trothplight

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noun

betrothal.

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Meanings

nountrothplight (plural trothplights)

plural trothplights

  1. obsoletebetrothal.

    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]
verbtrothplight (third-person singular simple present trothplights, present participle trothplighting, simple past and past participle trothplighted or trothplight)

present singular third person trothplights · participle present trothplighting · participle past trothplighted · past trothplighted

  1. obsoleteTo 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]

Origin

From troth + plight.

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APA

trothplight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trothplight

MLA

“trothplight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trothplight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trothplight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trothplight.

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