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trothful

trothful adjective: faithful, loyal, trustworthy.

Adjective

trothful (comparative more trothful, superlative most trothful)

  1. (archaic, rare) Faithful, loyal, trustworthy.
    • Of trothfull troth hope biddes me ſay, / That loue hath hedgde me in hir hande.1577, John Grange, “A Song of a Louer, wherein He Shewes His Loue towarde His Lady”, in The Golden Aphroditis: A Pleasant Discourse, […], London: […] Henry Bynneman, →OCLC, signature R, recto
    • Love as trothful, grief as true, / As a poor broken heart e’er knew!1823 January 18, “The Romaunt of Llewellyn; (Continued.) Canto I.—Part II.”, in The Manchester Iris: A Literary and Scientific Miscellany, […], volume II, number 51, Manchester: […] Henry Smith, […]...

Examples of trothful in a sentence

  • Without the trothful framework, the marriage will have a tendency to imbalance, unfreedom and fragility.1979 May, David Lyon, “Marx and the meaning of man: David Lyon considers Karl Marx’s understanding of humanity”, in John Capon, editor...
  • Trothful homosexual relationships are similar in every way to heterosexual ones, save for procreation.1994, John Tyndall, editor, Spearhead, London: Nationalist Centre, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 3:

Forms of trothful

comparativemore trothful
superlativemost trothful

Origin of trothful

From Middle English trouþeful, equivalent to troth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of truthful.

Questions about trothful

What does trothful mean?
Trothful means faithful, loyal, trustworthy.
How do you use trothful in a sentence?
Without the trothful framework, the marriage will have a tendency to imbalance, unfreedom and fragility.
What part of speech is trothful?
Trothful is an adjective.

Words near trothful in the dictionary

  1. trotcosies
  2. trotcosy
  3. trotcozy
  4. troth
  5. trothed
  6. trothful
  7. trothing
  8. trothless
  9. trothplight
  10. trothplighted
  11. trothplighting

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