different between tryst vs trysting
tryst
English
Etymology
From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traust? (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *dr?- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust (which see).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??st/, /t?a?st/
- Rhymes: -?st, -a?st
Noun
tryst (plural trysts)
- A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ?ISBN, 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?
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
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Verb
tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)
- (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
- (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
- (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
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trysting
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st??
Verb
trysting
- present participle of tryst
Noun
trysting (plural trystings)
- An appointment; a tryst.
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