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Definition of "troth" []

  • Betrothal. (noun)
  • One's pledged fidelity. (noun)
  • Good faith; fidelity. (noun)
  • To pledge or betroth. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "troth" in a sentence
  • "‘My troth is pledged,’ said the bandit; ‘I can never betray him in whose veins my own blood is flowing.’"
  • "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."
  • ""By my troth, that is Sir Guy of Gisborne's horn," quoth the Sheriff;"