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trothplights

trothplights is the plural of trothplight.

Meaning of trothplight

Noun

trothplight (plural trothplights)

  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...

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Questions about trothplights

What is trothplights the plural of?
Trothplights is the plural of trothplight.

Words near trothplights in the dictionary

  1. trothing
  2. trothless
  3. trothplight
  4. trothplighted
  5. trothplighting
  6. trothplights
  7. troths
  8. Trothy
  9. trotline
  10. trotlines
  11. Trotman

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