Both Uses of
tryst
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place.†
Chpt 2 *
- A tender premonition touched him of the tryst he had then looked forward to and, in spite of the horrible reality which lay between his hope of then and now, of the holy encounter he had then imagined at which weakness and timidity and inexperience were to fall from him.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(tryst) a rendezvous (meeting) -- especially a secret one between lovers