Jint vs Jilt - What's the difference?
jint | jilt |
To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=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 her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
As nouns the difference between jint and jilt
is that jint is while jilt is a woman who jilts a lover.As a verb jilt is
to cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.jilt
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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 their testimonies.
