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trothless, a.|ˈtrəʊθlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
1. Destitute of ‘troth’ or loyalty; faithless, perfidious, disloyal. arch.
αc1200Ormin 188 He shall turrnenn þurrh hiss spell Þe trowwþelæse leode. 1513Douglas æneis iv. vii. 8 Thow throuthles wycht.
β1567Drant Horace, Art Poetry A iv, Let Ino still be sad, lxie trothlesse, lo wandring. 1594Lodge Wounds Civil War iii. i. D iij b, The trustfull man that builds on trothles vowes. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. viii. 32 [Drunkenness] making the understanding ignorant, the strong staggering, the trusty trothless. 1887Swinburne Locrine i. i. 68 No coward indeed, but faithless, trothless.
†2. Destitute of truth; false, mendacious; incredible, untrustworthy. Obs.
α1390Gower Conf. III. 151 Bot what thing that is troutheles, It mai noght wel be schameles.
β1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1874) 13 Trothlesse toungs of men. 1601Deacon & Walker Answ. Darel 60 To trauerse the trueth of their trothlesse tales. Ibid. 75 Will you leaue the law, and the testimonies, and trot after a blind and a trothlesse lad for the reuelation of these hidden truthes? |