jilt
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She is the tragic spinster par excellence, a pain-seeking missile who couldn't be more open to repeated nuptial disappointment if she wore a large sign on her back saying: "Jilt Me".
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2012
Some few years since it was the great misfortune of my life to meet with a Jilt.
From I Say No by Collins, Wilkie
Illustrated 50 The Cloister and the Hearth 50 The Jilt 32mo, Paper 20 The Wandering Heir.
From For the Major A Novelette by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
"The Fair Jilt," a Bandello-like story, begins with an exaltation of Love: and so on.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
The Younger Brother; or, The Amorous Jilt, posthumously produced under the auspices of, and with some alterations by, Charles Gildon at Drury Lane in 1696.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
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A Doll's House
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