Tryst vs Trist - What's the difference?
tryst | trist |
A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
* Tennyson
* 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
* 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
(obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
(label) A set station in hunting.
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*:So at that time there was a lady dwelt in that forest, and she was a great huntress, and daily she used to hunt, and ever she bare her bow with her; and no men went never with her, but always women, and they were shooters, and could well kill a deer, both at the stalk and at the trest ;.
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*::So at that tyme there was a lady dwellid in that forest / and she was a grete huntresse / & dayly she vsed to hunte / and euer she bare her bowe with her / and no men wente neuer with her / but alwayes wymmen / and they were shoters / and coude wel kylle a dere bothe at the stalke & at the trest
(secret meeting).
*Letter dated September 1543
*:George Douglas caused a trist' to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which ' trist he and the cardinal agreed finally.
In obsolete terms the difference between trist and tryst
is that trist is sad; sorrowful; gloomy while tryst is a mutual agreement, a covenant.As an adjective trist
is sad; sorrowful; gloomy.tryst
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Noun
(en noun)- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- 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.
- 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?