trothful

Example Sentences

• "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."