All 3 Uses of
trifle
in
King Lear
- By day and night, he wrongs me; every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other, That sets us all at odds; I'll not endure it: His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.†
Scene 1.3 *
- ] Why I do trifle thus with his despair Is done to cure it.†
Scene 4.6
- That's but a trifle here.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity