troth

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[edit] Noun

troth (plural troths)

1. the state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
2. the promise or pledge so given as an act of fidelity

[edit] Quotations

betrothal

• 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]

  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.