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US
/ˈtɹoʊθ, ˈtɹɔθ/
]
[ UK /tɹˈɒθ/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɒθ/ ]
NOUN
- a mutual promise to marry
- a solemn pledge of fidelity
How To Use troth In A Sentence
- Helping him to do so, meanwhile, is Proteus' feisty betrothed, Marina, who gives as good as she gets in helping to ensure Sinbad doesn't stray from his path, while winning over the respect of his crew.
- If you haven't guessed by now the answer is located here, gentle readers, and I do beg thy pardon if I spake not in troth.
- He wins himself an Academy Award and leaves the public with an eerie image of electrotherapy. Can Magnets Enhance Your Mood?
- “Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright,” said the domestic, “an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, Edie.” The Antiquary
- The arch-bishop himself, Æthelnoth, came from Canterbury to witness our troth; I could scarce raise my eyes to him, knowing as he must every blemish of my soul.
- She was betrothed to her cousin at an early age.
- You still don't understand who it is I am betrothed to.
- Some initiation ceremony perhaps or unspoken betrothal?
- The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01
- What portion of himself or herself any one complicated physical and psychological human being really and truly 'conveys' to another by means of the simple contract known as the "plighted troth" or that of a larger deed called the called the "solemnization of matrimony", is a riddle difficult of solution; and as to how much one may claim on the strength of one or other of these indentures, that is a more difficult problem still. Hints for Lovers