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jilt
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Definition:1. To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.2. To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---A tricking woman, who encourages the addresses of a man whom she means to deceive and abandon.Francis Grose. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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Poor Alice! It is hard to explain how heavy a blow fell upon her from the open utterance of that word! Of all words in the language it was the one which she now most dreaded. She had called herself a jilt, with that inaudible voice which one uses in making self-accusations;—but hitherto no lips had pronounced the odious word to her ears. Poor Alice! She was a jilt; and perhaps it may have been well that the old man should tell her so.
Anthony Trollope. Can You Forgive Her? (1864)
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