Meaning of Troth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.
   archaic, countable
2. A surname transferred from the nickname.
3. A pledge or promise to marry someone.
   archaic, countable
4. The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.
   archaic, countable
5. Truth; something true.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“...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;...”

“It follows, as a natural consequence, that the two who stood alone in the new faith, [...] should, finally, make⟳ mutual confession of the passion that had surprised both, in the early pride of man and womanhood; should exchange⟳ rings, and plight troths where the pleasaunce joined the river, as young lovers do still probably exchange⟳ rings and plight troths, by the old Cheshire river.”

“Vendemer’s sole fortune is his genius, and he and Paule, who confessed to an answering flame, plighted their troth like⟳ a pair of young rustics or (what comes for French people to the same thing) young Anglo-Saxons.”

“I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.”

“[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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