10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLIGHT ONE'S TROTH»
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Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative
The transfer is one of 'troth'. One may recall what 'plight' means, in the expression
'plight one's troth'. The OED explains: 'To put (something) in danger or risk of
forfeiture; to give in pledge; to pledge or engage (one's troth, faith, oath, promise,
...
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A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England
Though, in the fourteenth century, the sense of truth we have been discussing
occurs commonly in the expression to plight one's troth, this was clearly not
restricted, as now, to describing marital engagements, but could be applied
generally to ...
Richard Firth Green, 2002
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Living in Spin: Narrative As a Distributed Ontology of Human ...
... word (the range of meanings was the same), and have survived in different
spellings and pronunciations (thus becoming two words, not one) only because
troth survived in an older pronunciation in an important phrase: to “plight one's
troth.
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German/English Dictionary of Idioms
Wenn wir die Papiere nicht haben, ist nichts zu machen. jm. die Hand zum Bund(
e) reichen form path 0d. iron selten ' 10 plight one's troth 10 s.0. rare Was, du
willst dem Utz Miller die Hand zum Bunde reichen'? Das würde ich mir nochmal ...
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A Tolkien English Glossary A Guide to Old Uncommon and ...
Faithfulness; fidelity, or loyalty; also, one's word or promise; to plight one's troth or
word to; engage by a contract. Faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty' also, one's word or
promise; one's word pledged in engaging one's self to marry. Engaged by troth ...
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Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays
Compare Othello's words about Desdemona, also spoken when he was
convinced she was unfaithful to him: "She was false as water" (Othello 5.2.134).
1.2.278: Before her troth-plight. To plight one's troth means to pledge one's truth
or faith; ...
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Content and Consciousness
such idioms are 'by dint of' and 'plight one's troth'. You cannot do anything with or
against anyone's sake, nor can you hope for a behalf, avoid a dint, or watch over
one's troth. As Quine points out, these degenerate nouns have no combinatory ...
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
... to trot out the same old arguments/... as s.o. Kerbe: in dieselbe/(die gleiche)
Kerbe hauen/( schlagen) (wie j.) troth to pKght one's troth Hand: sich die Hand
furs Leben reichen • Hand: sich die Hand zum Bund(e) reichen to plight one's
troth to ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
According to this tradition, to plight one's troth with the archetypal angelic
presence is to accept one's authentic spiritual destiny. As Corbin writes, “because
she is the archetype, the guardian angel who guides and inspires the life of the ...
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
v. 1 jog; hurry, scamper, colloq. scoot, skedaddle. troth /trawth, troth/ n. archaic 1
faith; loyalty. 2 truth. D pledge (or plight) one's troth pledge one's word esp. in
marriage or betrothal. trou-ba-dour /trCbbsdawr/ n. 1 French medieval lyric poet ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLIGHT ONE'S TROTH»
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The secret history of same-sex marriage
To “wed” another man in this way was to plight one's troth, to covenant for life, to express the highest form of love that one person could for ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
