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单词 trothless
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trothlessadj.

Brit. /ˈtrəʊθlᵻs/, /ˈtrɒθlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtrɔθlᵻs/, /ˈtroʊθlᵻs/, /ˈtrɑθlᵻs/
Forms: see troth n. and -less suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: troth n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < troth n. + -less suffix. Compare truthless adj.
Now archaic and rare.
1. Unfaithful, disloyal, treacherous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [adjective] > perfidious
trothlessc1175
proditorious?a1475
perfidiousa1538
truthless1567
fedifragous1600
false-hearta1616
fidious1640
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [adjective]
unholdc1000
untruec1040
trothlessc1175
false?c1225
untrowingc1330
unfaithful1530
untrusty1556
truthless1567
infidelious1581
inconfident1603
fausen1611
false-hearta1616
infidous1656
infide1663
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 188 He shall turrnenn þurrh hiss spell Þe trowwþelæse leode.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. vii. 8 Thow throuthles wycht.
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Aiiijv Let Ino still be sad, lxie trothlesse lo wandring.
1594 T. Lodge Wounds Ciuill War iii. i. sig. D3v The trustfull man that builds on trothles vowes.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. viii. 32) 313 Filthy quaffing..metamorphoseth the whole man: making the understanding ignorant, the strong staggering, the trusty trothlesse.
1777 Selector 2 Jan. 314 For women are trothless, and flote in an houre.
1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine i. i. 9 False was he; No coward indeed, but faithless, trothless.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 212/2 There is..no corrupt, trothless, tortuous, and infamous influence they will not court.
1985 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots (rev. ed.) James iv. 395 Trothless sauls, ken-ye-na at fríendship wi the warld is onfríendship wi God?
2. Untruthful, false, mendacious. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective]
leasea900
liec975
false?c1225
unsoothfasta1300
untruefulc1380
trothlessa1393
fickle-tongue1393
truthlessa1522
lying1535
fabling1548
forging1593
mendacious1616
soothless1803
storytelling1839
unveracious1845
fabricatory1855
untruthful1858
falsidical1866
leasing1873
inveracious1885
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1965 Bot what thing that is troutheles, It mai noght wel be schameles.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4462 Quen ȝe haue tildid vp-on [top] ȝour trouthles gods, Sum of gold, sum of glas..Þan fall ȝe flatt on þe fold with fees þaim adoures.
?1569 T. Broke Slaunderous Libell sig. B.iijv How ill a trothlesse toung besemes.
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. Cv Trothles tungs of men.
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 75 Will you leaue the law, and the testimonies, and trot after a blind and a trothlesse lad for the reuelation of these hidden truthes?
1761 P. Doyle tr. T. Tasso Delivery Jerusalem II. 101 You follow but a rash and trothless guide.
1907 J. S. Corbett Eng. in Seven Years War II. x. 298 The misguided and trothless diplomacy of the hour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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