troth
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troth¹
- /tɹəʊθ/ UK
- /tɹɒθ/ UK
- /tɹoʊθ/ US
- /tɹɔθ/ US
Rhymes with -əʊθ, -ɒθ, -oʊθ, -ɔθ
Where it comes from
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). Doublet of truth.
noun troths
- An oath, pledge, plight, or promise. By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]
- A pledge or promise to marry someone. ...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;...
- The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement. I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.
- Truth; something true. [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.
verb troths · trothing · trothed
- To pledge to marry somebody.
Troth²
Where it comes from
From troth, a nickname for someone who was inclined to take oaths.
proper noun Troths
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
Translations
Every language
noun oath, pledge or promise
| Deutsch | Treuegelöbnis, Treueversprechen, Treueeid, Treue |
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| Русский | честное сло́во čestnoje slóvo |
noun pledge or promise to marry someone
| Deutsch | Eheversprechen |
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