laither

Updated: May 14, 2025

It went on those betrothal vows, dictated while the two cold hands were linked, his with a kind of limp passiveness, hers, quaking, especially as, in the old use of York, he took her "for laither for fairer" laith being equivalent to loathly "till death us do part."

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Grisly Grisell