▪ I. † ˈortrow, n. Obs.
Forms: 3 ortruwe, -trowe, -trewe, -trou, 5 -trow.
[A subst. use of next: cf. OE. tréow, tr{yacu}w truth, faith.]
Distrust, diffidence; suspicion.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Wanrede wecheð on mannes heorte ortruwe þe deuð him on helle. Ibid. 73 Ortrowe of agene mihte letteð þe mannes shrifte. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7021 Me þincþ þat in ortrou þou art more To me of þi broþer deþ. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 128 Men hadden grete ortrow vpon hym, that he..wold make hym self kynge I-crouned of the lond. |
▪ II. † ˈortrow, a. Obs.
[OE. ortr{iacu}ewe, -tr{yacu}we, tréowe, f. or- privative, ‘without’ + tréowe, tr{yacu}we, true, faithful, trustworthy.]
a. (In OE.) Despairing. b. Distrustful, unbelieving.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. i. §7 Hie æt nihstan wæron ortriewe [MS. C. ortreowe] hwæþer him æniᵹ moneaca cuman scolde. c 1020 Wulfstan Hom. xv. (Napier) 91 We to ortreowe [v.rr. ortrywe, -truwe] syndan godes mihta. c 1200 Ormin 11589 Forr þatt he warrþ orrtrowwe off Crist þurrh niþfull modiȝnesse. |
▪ III. † orˈtrow, v. Obs.
[OE. ortr{uacu}wian, -tr{yacu}wan to despair of, f. or- + tr{uacu}wian to trust, believe.]
1. a. trans. To despair of; to distrust. b. intr. To despair; to be distrustful.
| c 1000 ælfric On O. Test. (Gr.) 17 He ortruwode his drihtnys mildheortnysse. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 113 He ne scal nohwer ortrowian bi godes fultum. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 75 Þe man þe ortroweð godes mildhertnesse, he is idemd to eche wowe on helle. |
2. trans. To suspect, have a suspicion of.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 382 Ȝif eni mon ei swuch þing ortroweð bi him. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2381 Naþeles wel me it ortrowede & ne leuede noȝt is glose. 1382 Wyclif Judg. viii. 11 Gedeon..smoot the tentis of the enemyes that weren siker, and no thing of aduersyte ortroweden. |