troth

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Coldly rejoining that his troth is already plighted, Sir Guyon refuses, only to emerge from this hall into a garden, through whose branches he catches fleeting glimpses of the underworld.

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  1. noun Betrothal.
  2. noun One's pledged fidelity.
  3. noun Good faith; fidelity.

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  • The couple and Minear calculated that once they pledged this financial mish-mash in a common troth, the couple's combined debt would outweigh their pooled assets by about —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • He vows to fulfil his pledge and love-troth, and he writes in runes some message, which she, as it appears, would understand, and she alone The old, old story, written fair and full You will have noticed in the literature we have been considering the absence of certain elements which are an integral part of our modern literature. —  Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
  • "How did it happen that you were forced into such a variety of characters Why, you see, Mr. Reilly--troth and maybe I had better not be naming you aloud; walls have ears, and so may hedges. —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • Do you hear him," she exclaimed, laughing--"never mind him, children!--troth, he went at sich a snail's pace that one 'ud think it was to confession he was goin', and that he did nothing but think of his sins as he went along That was bekaise I knew that I had the penance before me," he replied, laughing also Any how," replied his wife, "our case was not like their's. —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • Better the broken troth--better the nine days' wonder--than the perjured bride, and the loveless, sinful nuptials! —  Ishmael In the Depths
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English trouthe, trothe, variant of treuthe, from Old English trēowth, truth; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English trouthe, trowthe, trought, etc., variant of treouthe, treuthe, truthe, from Anglo-Saxon treówth, truth: see truth, the commoner form of the word. The proper historical pron. of troth is trōth; so betroth, prop, bẹ̄-trōth′. The pron. trôth (given by Sheridan) and the worse pron. troth (given by Walker and his copiers) are irregular, and are prob. artificial, the word in educated use being chiefly literary, scarcely occurring in vernacular speech.
  2. from troth, n.
 

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