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TRUE TO
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sexually faithful
Example:
she was true to her significant other
Classified under:
Similar:
faithful (not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend)
Context examples:
He had bred true to the straight wolf- stock—in fact, he had bred true to old One Eye himself, physically, with but a single exception, and that was he had two eyes to his father's one.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests, and considerate of her feelings, trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the diffidence which prevented their being more apparent; giving her advice, consolation, and encouragement.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Girls do it every day, poor things, and are taught to think it is their only salvation, but you had better lessons, and though I trembled for you at one time, I was not disappointed, for the daughter was true to the mother's teaching.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every traveller, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If any should come nigh, they shall see the old widder woman true to 'em, a long way off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If you were really great, really true to yourself, you would join forces with Leach and Johnson.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at once.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was in dreadful earnest and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever happened I would always be true to him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Out of my window as I write I can see my own great lad in the garden, and if I were to call out “Nelson!” you would see that I have been true to the traditions of our family.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the prince took care to throw away the sleeping draught; and when Lily came and began again to tell him what woes had befallen her, and how faithful and true to him she had been, he knew his beloved wife’s voice, and sprang up, and said, You have awakened me as from a dream, for the strange princess had thrown a spell around me, so that I had altogether forgotten you; but Heaven hath sent you to me in a lucky hour.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
