α. see troth n. and adv. and plight n.1
β. see truth n. and adv. and plight n.1
troth-plightn.
/ˈtrəʊθˌplʌɪt/, /ˈtrɒθˌplʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈtrɔθˌplaɪt/, /ˈtroʊθˌplaɪt/, /ˈtrɑθˌplaɪt/ Now archaic and rare.
The act of plighting troth; a solemn promise or engagement, esp. of marriage; betrothal; = troth-plighting n. Also attributive.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun]
truthc1300
betrothingc1315
truthingc1350
espousala1393
troth-plighta1393
desponsationa1400
troth-plightingc1400
ensurance1469
fiançailles1477
handfasting1483
assurancea1513
assuring1530
suring1530
contract1551
insurancea1556
trothing1565
despousage1570
betrothment1585
contracting1585
affiancing1596
spousage1596
espousage1599
handfasta1616
desponsories1645
hand-fastening1662
disposories1668
contraction1702
engagement1811
plightage1819
betrothal1844
heart-bond1887
introduction1965
kwanjula1973
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath
hesta1200
vow1297
professionc1300
sermenta1325
avow1330
sacrament1430
votec1540
troth-plight1570
upon my Sam1939
advower-
α.
β. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xii. 82 A Greik,..That fugityve..Had left hys spowsal trewth plycht oncompleit.1662 A. Petrie Compend. Hist. Catholick Church 376 All debts that were owing of truth-plight, should not be pleaded in Spiritual, but Temporal Courts.1835 Atkinson's Casket Nov. 636/1 By touching the hand of the corpse, she formally resumed the truth-plight which she had bestowed.a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4228 (MED) Scholde every good man knowe..that in mariage His trouthe plight lith in morgage.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 28485 I..serekens hotes has þam hight, And broken vmquile my trouth plight.
1550 in Reg. Guild Corpus Christi City York (1872) 228 A trouth-plighte rynge.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 265/2 That all debtes, that were owyng through trouth plyght, should not be pledid in spirituall but in temporall court.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 280 A Name As ranke as any Flax-Wench, that puts to Before her troth-plight . View more context for this quotation
1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 301 Peruse this troth-plight ryme.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor vii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 130 The lovers going through an emblematic ceremony of their troth-plight... They broke betwixt them the thin broad-piece of gold.
1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart i. i. 52 To set again the seal on our past oaths And bind their trothplight faster than it is With one more witness.
1905 Smart Set Aug. 70/2 She had gathered enough to show how far from ready was Mona to fulfil the troth-plight with her cousin.
1991 Spy Nov. 28/1 For the occasion of her eighth (or ninth?) trothplight, Elizabeth Taylor commissioned Cartier..to engrave the invitations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
troth-plightadj.
/ˈtrəʊθˌplʌɪt/, /ˈtrɒθˌplʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈtrɔθˌplaɪt/, /ˈtroʊθˌplaɪt/, /ˈtrɑθˌplaɪt/α. see truth n. and adv. and plight v.1
β. see troth n. and plight v.1
Now archaic and rare.
Bound by a solemn promise or engagement, esp. of marriage; engaged, betrothed.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adjective] > bound by promise
troth-plighta1300
sworna1325
plightedc1390
assured1426
jurate1433
abjured1552
sure1567
trothed1567
obliged1600
testeda1616
ingudged1650
betrothed1651
sacramental1785
undertaking1786
oath-bound1795
committed1821
word-bound1836
tied1876
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [adjective] > betrothed
troth-plighta1300
handfasta1470
assured1474
desponsate1483
handfasted1535
contracted1548
betrothed1557
trothed1567
affianced1574
affied1591
contract1597
combinatea1616
desponsated1623
troth-contracted1633
troth1844
engaged1869
α.
β. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) 153 Whan þei were trouth plight, & purueied þe sposage.c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 88 Truly..we trowe he be maryed or travthe-plyght.a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xlviii. f. lxxxxiiiv/2 The doughter of a noble Romayne, whyche some tyme was fyaunced and trouthplyght in maryage to a noble man of Rome.a1500 (?a1475) Guy of Warwick (Cambr. Ff.2.38) l. 4330 (MED) Gye thoght in hys herte..Whedur he wolde be trowþeplyght.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 18 Yfaith mistresse quickly did thee great wrong, For thou weart troth plight to her.1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iii. i. sig. G Shee a Prostitute? Nay, and to him my troath plight, and my Friend.1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine i. ii. 33 I that was trothplight servant to thy sire.1891 W. Morris Poems by Way 104 There are troth-plight maids unwed.1917 W. H. Cudworth tr. Horace Odes iii. ii. 83 Our trothplight prince, to war unbred.2008 C. M. Billing Masculinity, Corporality & Eng. Stage, 1580–1635 iv. 178 He is reconciled to his troth-plight wife.a1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Vitell.) (1966) l. 148 Treweþe ipliht [c1330 Auch. We beþ wed breþren and trewþe ipliȝt].
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vesp.) (1873) C. vii. l. 208 Truþeplith [c1400 Huntington HM 137 Ich serued symme at þe style, And was his prentys yplyght].
a1500 (?a1475) Guy of Warwick (Cambr. Ff.2.38) l. 8831 (MED) We were felows trewtheplyght [c1475 Caius and trouth-plyȝte].
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xii. 87 The purpour brycht, Quhilk of his trewth plycht lufe he bair in sing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
troth-plightv.
/ˈtrəʊθˌplʌɪt/, /ˈtrɒθˌplʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈtrɔθˌplaɪt/, /ˈtroʊθˌplaɪt/, /ˈtrɑθˌplaɪt/α. see troth n. and adv. and plight v.1
β. see truth n. and adv. and plight v.1
Now archaic and rare.
transitive. To plight one's troth to (a person); spec. to engage to marry (a person). Cf. troth v. Also occasionally: to promise (a person) to do something.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > betroth [verb (transitive)] > engage oneself to
handfastc1275
betroth1303
trotha1400
troth-plighta1400
fiance1483
contract1735
α.
β. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 504 Trutheplytyn [?a1475 Winch. truplytyn, 1499 Pynson trouthplityn], affido.c1450 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Cambr. Ii.4.9) (1983) l. 1705 (MED) Trewth plyȝth no woman.a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 8363 Ȝyf þou a womman trouþe plyght.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 332 And than they trouthe-plyght other to love and never to fayle whyle their lyff lastyth.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccxxxiii Fraunceys,..whose doughter..Maximylian had before trouth plyted, for his lawfull wyfe.
1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. A4v Marian, daughter to Lord Lacy, Is troth-plighted to wastfull Huntington.
1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iv. 796 God was as the Husband, Israel as the wife. They troth-plighted themselves thereby one to another.
1797 F. G. Waldron Virgin Queen in Free Refl. 54 Can soil or harm troth-plighted, clear virginity!
1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiii, in Tales Crusaders II. 262 Not married, perhaps, but engaged—troth-plighted.
1878 S. Phillips On Seaboard 75 Hand in hand, Troth-plighted, we two heard the midnight chime.
1904 Harper's Monthly Mag. Apr. 706/2 Adhelmar, come again to Puysange after five years' absence, found Mélite troth-plighted, fast and safe, to Hugues.
1993 ‘J. Plaidy’ Rose Without Thorn 72 All I wanted was to marry Francis Derham, to whom I was troth-plighted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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