English Dictionary

troth

IPA（発音記号）

/tɹəʊθ/

名詞

古語 可算名詞 不可算名詞

(countable, archaic) A pledge or promise to marry someone. / (countable, archaic) The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement. / (countable, uncountable, archaic) Truth; something true.

日本語の意味

婚約の約束、結婚の誓い / 婚約状態、婚約 / 真実、事実

He swore his troth beneath the ancient oak, promising to return when the war was done.

彼は古い樫の木の下で婚約の誓いを立て、戦争が終わったら戻ると約束した。

意味（1）

(countable, archaic) 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;...

意味（2）

(countable, archaic) 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.

意味（3）

(countable, uncountable, archaic) 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.

troths （ plural ）