Definition of "trothplight" []

• A betrothal. (noun)
• To betroth. (verb-transitive)

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• "Tells the tale truly, shows their trothplight firm."
• "Even were you free of your trothplight -- even were I free of my prison, most beautiful lady, I have naught to offer you yonder in that fair land of France."
• "The sort of semi-trothplight she had just hushed into silence would do for a good long time to come, because she understood"