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▪ I. † ˈortrow, n. Obs.
Forms: 3 ortruwe, -trowe, -trewe, -trou, 5 -trow.
[A subst. use of next: cf. OE. tréow, trýw truth, faith.]
Distrust, diffidence; suspicion.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Wanrede wecheð on mannes heorte ortruwe þe deuð him on helle. Ibid. 73 Ortrowe of agene mihte letteð þe mannes shrifte. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7021 Me þincþ þat in ortrou þou art more To me of þi broþer deþ. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 128 Men hadden grete ortrow vpon hym, that he..wold make hym self kynge I-crouned of the lond.
▪ II. † ˈortrow, a. Obs.
[OE. ortríewe, -trýwe, tréowe, f. or- privative, ‘without’ + tréowe, trýwe, true, faithful, trustworthy.]
a. (In OE.) Despairing.
b. Distrustful, unbelieving.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iv. i. §7 Hie æt nihstan wæron ortriewe [MS. C. ortreowe] hwæþer him æniᵹ moneaca cuman scolde. c1020Wulfstan Hom. xv. (Napier) 91 We to ortreowe [v.rr. ortrywe, -truwe] syndan godes mihta. c1200Ormin 11589 Forr þatt he warrþ orrtrowwe off Crist þurrh niþfull modiȝnesse.
▪ III. † orˈtrow, v. Obs.
[OE. ortrúwian, -trýwan to despair of, f. or- + trúwian to trust, believe.]
1. a. trans. To despair of; to distrust. b. intr. To despair; to be distrustful.
c1000ælfric On O. Test. (Gr.) 17 He ortruwode his drihtnys mildheortnysse. c1175Lamb. Hom. 113 He ne scal nohwer ortrowian bi godes fultum. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 75 Þe man þe ortroweð godes mildhertnesse, he is idemd to eche wowe on helle.
2. trans. To suspect, have a suspicion of.
a1225Ancr. R. 382 Ȝif eni mon ei swuch þing ortroweð bi him. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2381 Naþeles wel me it ortrowede & ne leuede noȝt is glose. 1382Wyclif Judg. viii. 11 Gedeon..smoot the tentis of the enemyes that weren siker, and no thing of aduersyte ortroweden. |