All 3 Uses of
trifle
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- Do not believe That, from the sense of all civility, I thus would play and trifle with your reverence: Your daughter,—if you have not given her leave,— I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and everywhere.†
Scene 1.1 (definition 1) *
- Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.†
Scene 3.3 (definition 2) *
- O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fortune and did give my husband; For often with a solemn earnestness,— More than, indeed, belong'd to such a trifle,— He begg'd of me to steal it.†
Scene 5.2 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect
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(2) (trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity