troth

1. (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.Examples: "By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]"; "And by my faith and troth I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence!"; "Hagen of Troneg now foully broke his troth to Siegfried."archaiccountable

2. (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.Examples: "...I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;..."; "It follows, as a natural consequence, that the two who stood alone in the new faith, [...] should, finally, make mutual confession of the passion that had surprised both, in the early pride of man and womanhood; should exchange rings, and plight troths where the pleasaunce joined the river, as young lovers do still probably exchange rings and plight troths, by the old Cheshire river."; "Vendemer’s sole fortune is his genius, and he and Paule, who confessed to an answering flame, plighted their troth like a pair of young rustics or (what comes for French people to the same thing) young Anglo-Saxons."archaiccountable

3. (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.Examples: "I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king."archaiccountable

4. (countable, uncountable, archaic) Truth; something true.Examples: "[John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit."; "I can̄ot lerne Banister's confession upon the racke as yet; but he was put to the racke for denying of moost manifest trothes at the first."; "The suddaine recouerie of my distressed Maister, whome latelie you left in a Traunce (Most excellent Princes!) hath made me at one tyme the hastie messenger of three trothes, your miracle, his mending, & my mirthe."archaiccountableuncountable