Noun

(troths)

(archaic) an oath, promise, or pledge

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, year = 1597 , first = William , last = Shakespeare , authorlink = William Shakespeare , title = , chapter = Act III, Scene 2 , passage = By my troth , I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: }}

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, year = 1883 , first = Howard , last = Pyle , authorlink = Howard Pyle , title = , chapter = The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town , passage = And by my faith and troth , I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence! }}

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, year = 1909 , first = Daniel Bussier , last = Shumway (translator) , title = , chapter = Adventure XVI , passage = Hagen of Troneg now foully broke his troth to Siegfried. }}

specifically, a promise or pledge to marry someone

the state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement

Noun

(en noun)

Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .

I am a great reader of fiction .

(uncountable) Invention.

The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .