Troth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.

   “By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]”

2. isim A pledge or promise to marry someone.

   “...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;...”

3. isim The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.

   “I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.”

4. isim Truth; something true.

   “[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.”

5. fiil To pledge to marry somebody.
6. özel isim A surname transferred from the nickname.