Meaning of trothful | Babel Free

Definitions

Faithful, loyal, trustworthy.

archaic, rare

Examples

“Of trothfull troth hope biddes me ſay, / That loue hath hedgde me in hir hande.”

“Love as trothful, grief as true, / As a poor broken heart e’er knew!”

“[T]rothful men, who once / Look’d in his lordly, luminous eyes, and scann’d / His sinewous frame, compact of pliant power, / Aver he was the fairest-favour’d knight / That ever, in the light of ladies’ looks, / Made gay these goodly halls.”

“The marriage relationship, another of God’s ‘frameworks’, was intended to be characterised by particular kinds of responses. The response is best summed up by the old English word ‘troth’. This, a variant of ‘truth’, encompasses in one word the idea of faithfulness, honesty, openness, humility and love – all of which are necessary to marriage. Without the trothful framework, the marriage will have a tendency to imbalance, unfreedom and fragility.”

“Trothful homosexual relationships are similar in every way to heterosexual ones, save for procreation.”

“Moreover, trothful homosexual relationships can have things that are good—love, non-judgementalism, friendship and companionship, and we can have very bad experiences with Christian heterosexuals without judging their faith. […] Marriage as troth is the normative model for adult humanity.”

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