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Troth
Definitions
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname.
- 1 An oath, pledge, plight, or promise. archaic, countable
"By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]"
- 2 a solemn pledge of fidelity wordnet
- 3 An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.; A pledge or promise to marry someone. archaic, countable
"...I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;..."
- 4 a mutual promise to marry wordnet
- 5 An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.; The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement. archaic, countable
"I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king."
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- 6 Truth; something true. archaic, countable, uncountable
"[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."
- 1 To pledge to marry somebody. obsolete
Etymology
From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). See more at truth.
From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). See more at truth.
From troth, a nickname for someone who was inclined to take oaths.
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