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Tryst

Tryst

,
Noun.
[OE.
trist
,
tryst
, a variant of
trust
; cf. Icel.
treysta
to make trusty, fr.
traust
confidence, security. See
Trust
,
Noun.
]
1.
Trust.
[Obs.]
2.
An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting;
as, to keep
tryst
; to break
tryst
.
[Scot. or Poetic]
To bide tryst
,
to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment.
The tenderest-hearted maid
That ever
bided tryst
at village stile.
Tennyson.

Tryst

,
Verb.
T.
[OE.
tristen
,
trysten
. See
Tryst
,
Noun.
]
1.
To trust.
[Obs.]
2.
To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
[Scot.]
Burns.

Tryst

,
Verb.
I.
To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.
[Scot.]

Definition 2024

tryst

tryst

English

Noun

tryst ‎(plural trysts)

  1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
    • Tennyson
      The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
    • 2004, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life, page 11
      But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
    • 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, №91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
      If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
  2. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.

Translations

Verb

tryst ‎(third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)

  1. (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
  2. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
  3. (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

Translations

Etymology

From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French tristre ‎(“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse treysta ‎(“to make safe, secure”), from traust ‎(“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą ‎(“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- ‎(“to be firm, be solid”). More at trust.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹɪst/, /tɹaɪst/
  • Rhymes: -ɪst, -aɪst

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