OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13525

jilt

/d͡ʒɪlt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cortar • dar calabazas • dejar • planchar • plantar
To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all…
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered…
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