arch. [f. as prec. + plight, pa. pple. of PLIGHT v.1] Engaged by a ‘troth’ or covenant, esp. of marriage; betrothed, affianced.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 153. Whan þei were trouth plight, & purueied þe sposage.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VII. 208. Ich serued symme at þe style, And was his prentys yplyght [v.r. truþeplith].
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. xlviii. 93 b/2. The doughter of a noble Romayne; whyche some tyme was fyaunced and trouthplyght in maryage to a noble man of Rome.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. xii. 87. The purpour brycht, Quhilk of his trewth plycht lufe he bair in sing.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., II. i. 21. He is marryed to Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you were troth-plight to her.
1633. Heywood, Eng. Trav., III. Wks. 1874, IV. 57. Shee a Prostitute? Nay, and to him my troath plight, and my Friend.
1887. Swinburne, Locrine, I. ii. 33. I that was trothplight servant to thy sire.
1896. Morris, Poems by the Way (1898), 119. There are trothplight maids unwed.
