trothless
English
Etymology
From Middle English troutheles, trouthles, trowwþelæse, equivalent to troth + -less.[1] Piecewise doublet of truthless.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹəʊθləs/
Adjective
trothless (comparative more trothless, superlative most trothless)
- (archaic, poetic) Untrustworthy, treacherous.
- Synonyms: guiled, proditorious, ratlike; see also Thesaurus:treacherous
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
- Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky.
References
- “trothless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “trothless, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.