| \trawth, trohth\ | noun
1. one's word or promise, especially in engaging oneself to marry.
2. faithfulness, fidelity, or loyalty: by my troth. | | Quotes | Now, in troth, 'tis a great pity, quoth mine Irish host, that all this good courtship should be lost; for the young gentlewoman has been after going out of hearing of it all along.
-- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1767 | | Origin | | Troth entered English in the 1100s from the Middle English trowthe, trouthe meaning "truth." It ultimately comes from the Old English trēowth. | |
