jilt
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She is the tragic spinster par excellence, a pain-seeking missile who couldn't be more open to repeated nuptial disappointment if she wore a large sign on her back saying: "Jilt Me".
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2012
Jilt, jilt, n. a woman who encourages a lover and then rejects him.—v.t. to encourage and then discard a lover.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The three ladies had a box at the Haymarket taken for this very evening, at which a new piece, "The Noble Jilt," from the hand of a very eminent author, was to be produced.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony
In 1875 he returned to New York City and finally made his home there, but he paid occasional visits to London, where his last appearance was made in his play, The Jilt, in 1886.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
You know that Bailey was very much cut up about a little Jilt in the country somewhere.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
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