Troth

/tɹəʊθ/ · noun

Meaning

(countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, plight, or promise..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.
2. (countable, uncountable, archaic) Truth; something true.
3. (obsolete) To pledge to marry somebody.

Example Sentences

By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]

And by my faith and troth I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence!

Hagen of Troneg now foully broke his troth to Siegfried.

[John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit.

I can̄ot lerne Banister's confession upon the racke as yet; but he was put to the racke for denying of moost manifest trothes at the first.

The suddaine recouerie of my distressed Maister, whome latelie you left in a Traunce (Most excellent Princes!) hath made me at one tyme the hastie messenger of three trothes, your miracle, his mending, & my mirthe.

Troth but it was fitting speech for the moonlight: moonlight, the bright and clear, but the cold—which, unlike the sun, opens no flowers, and ripens no fruit.

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• troths
• trothing
• trothed

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