What does jilt mean?
Jilt means A woman who readily casts aside her lover..
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/d͡ʒɪlt/ · noun
A woman who readily casts aside her lover..
And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?
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.
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.
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Jilt means A woman who readily casts aside her lover..
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And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?
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