plighter
English
Etymology
From plight + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplaɪtə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
plighter (plural plighters)
- One who or that which plights, engages, or pledges.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene xiii]:
- My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal
And plighter of high hearts!
- 1963, P. G. Wodehouse, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, New York: Perennial Library, 1983, Chapter 16, p. 124,
- I mean to say, remorse has frequently been known to set in after a dust-up between a couple of troth-plighters, with all that Sorry-I-was-cross and Can-you-ever-forgive-me stuff, and love, after being down in the cellar for a time with no takers, perks up and carries on again as good as new.
- 1978, James Coltrane, Talon, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 11, p. 48,
- He hung up. And felt stupid. The most beautiful woman in the whole world had practically plighted her troth to him. And she didn’t seem like your run-of-the-mill plighter.
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Anagrams
- prelight