troth
IPA: trˈoʊθ
noun
- (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, or promise.
- (countable, archaic) A pledge or promise to marry someone.
- (countable, archaic) The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.
- (countable, uncountable, archaic) Truth; something true.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
verb
- (obsolete) To pledge to marry somebody.
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Examples of "troth" in Sentences
- He always keeps his troth.
- He heard the news about their troth.
- A couple plighted troth with sincerity.
- The two trothed in front of their friends.
- He is known for his punctuality and troth.
- They promised that they will keep the troth.
- Flowers is no longer affiliated with the Troth.
- The Eldaring is affiliated with the US based Troth.
- By my troth, that is good blood to have in one's veins!
- Immediately after, Brynhild and Sigurd plight their troth.
- "By my troth, that is Sir Guy of Gisborne's horn," quoth the Sheriff;
- The wedding room is a favourite place for couples to plight their troth.
- DiMarzio took to the radio airwaves to compare same-sex marriage to the pledging one's troth to a dog.
- ‘My troth is pledged,’ said the bandit; ‘I can never betray him in whose veins my own blood is flowing.’
- I recalled my troth, plighted earlier, before I had ever seen her, -- my faith, pledged in another world.
- But my kinsmen have had other plans for a year, and when the suggestion was made that I might be included in the Bargain, they made sword troth for me at once.
- Or if 'troth' is archaic, and conveys little meaning to us; suppose we substitute a somewhat longer word, of the same meaning, and say, 'His faithfulness shall be thy shield.'
- Things are very fluid and anything still can happen but, for what is worth, my bet is that we will see Conservatives and Liberals plight some kind of troth in the next day or two.
- But the ring with which her mother and grandmother plighted their troth was the ring with which they were wedded, and when Chamisso wrote _Du Ring an meinem Finger_ he was not writing of diamonds.
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