Troth vs Fiction - What's the difference?
troth | fiction |
(archaic) an oath, promise, or pledge
* {{quote-book
, 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:
}}
* {{quote-book
, 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!
}}
* {{quote-book
, 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
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
As nouns the difference between troth and fiction
is that troth is (archaic) an oath, promise, or pledge while fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.troth
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Noun
(troths)Quotations
;betrothal * 1893, , Collaboration [http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm] *: 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. *1826, , The Last of the Mohicans *: I did therefore what an honest man should - restored the maiden her troth , and departed the country in the service of my king.External links
* * *fiction
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(wikipedia fiction)Noun
(en noun)- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
- I am a great reader of fiction .
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .
