TROTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does troth mean? 

• TROTH (noun)
  The noun TROTH has 2 senses:

1. a mutual promise to marry

2. a solemn pledge of fidelity

  Familiarity information: TROTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mutual promise to marry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

betrothal; engagement; troth

Hypernyms ("troth" is a kind of...):

promise (a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "troth"):

ringing (the giving of a ring as a token of engagement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A solemn pledge of fidelity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

plight; troth

Hypernyms ("troth" is a kind of...):

assurance; pledge (a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something)

 Context examples 

By my troth, he seems to be a man of much wisdom and valor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my troth! master Ford, your friend here is in need of a cup of wine, for he hath drunk deeply of Garonne water.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By my troth! I think very well of it,” cried the prudent old commander.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my troth! if they were my subjects they would be glad enough to wear falding and leather ere I had done with them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Not I, in troth,” replied the other; “I have had other things to think of. There was some sort of bickering over dice, or wine, or was it a woman, coz?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On my troth, I felt no great love when I first saw you, but since then I have conceived over much regard for you to wish to see the verderer's flayer at work upon you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my troth! said Chandos with a smile, it is very fitting that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, and I have had the mischance to lose one of mine, we have but a pair between us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my troth, young sir, he said, you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)