arch. Forms: see TROTH, TRUTH, PLIGHT sb.1, v.1 [f. TROTH sb. + PLIGHT sb.1] The act of plighting troth, or troth plighted; a solemn promise or engagement, esp. of marriage; betrothai.
[13[?]. Cursor M., 28485 (Cott.). Broken … my trouth plight.]
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. xii. 82. A Greik,… That fugityve … Had left hys spowsal trewth plycht oncompleit.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 265/2. That all debtes, that were owyng through trouth plyght, should not be pledid in spirituall but in temporall court.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 278. A Name As ranke as any Flax-Wench, that puts to Before her troth-plight.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xix. [xx]. The lovers going through an emblematic ceremony of their troth-plight…. They broke betwixt them the thin broad-piece of gold.
1881. 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.
attrib. 1550. Reg. Gild Corp. Chr. York (1872), 228, note. A trouth-plighte rynge.
a. 1652. Brome, Queenes Exch., II. i. A very trothplight qualm.
