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Meanings of trothplight in English

To promise to give in marriage.

Usage of trothplight in English
1
Why should I not choose to go up on to the Island to deliver my trothplight maiden?
The Story of the Glittering Plain / Which Has Been Also Called t...
2
Therefore they shall be trothplighted before you all.'
The lord of the rings
3
"Trothplighted," she whispered, with wide-open eyes of delight; "I hoped as much-howhappy my father will be when Oliver"-
An Unwilling Maid / Being the History of Certain Episodes during...
4
"Since you make so great a claim on Maggie, you may; but why did she not write to you, if you were trothplighted?"
A Daughter of Fife
5
"Nay, I deem it not," said Hallblithe: "But, tell me, is it verily true that my trothplight is not here, that I may ransom her?"
The Story of the Glittering Plain / Which Has Been Also Called t...
Trothplight through the time