Troth vs Twoth - What's the difference?

troth | twoth |


As a noun troth

is (archaic) an oath, promise, or pledge.

As an adjective twoth is

(nonstandard) second, in ordinal numbers higher than "twentieth".

troth

English

Noun

(troths)
  • (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

    • 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.

    Related terms

    * betroth * betrothal * truth

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    twoth

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (nonstandard) second, in ordinal numbers higher than "twentieth"
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1872 , author= , title=Reminiscences of the Army , journal=The Cape monthly magazine , volume=5 , page=302 , passage=The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth , form quarter distance column on the grenadier company." }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , author=Joseph Wright , title=The English dialect grammar , page=269 , passage=In Dev. twoth' is used for ''second'', as ''the twenty-'''twoth of April . }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1905 , year_published=2009 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Annie Hamilton Donnell , title=Rebecca Marry , chapter=The Hundred and Oneth citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth . I've decided. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=1995 , month= , author=Christian Lükemeyer , coauthors=Tobias G. Noll , title=An Optimized Coefficient Update Processor for High-Throughput Adaptive Equalizers , volume= , issue= , page=PDF 2 , magazine=CiteSeerX , publisher=Penn. State University , issn= citation , passage=The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alan Black , title=Steel Walls and Dirt Drops , chapter= citation , genre=SciFi , publisher=Trafford Publishing , isbn=9781426914836 , page=13 , passage=Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured. }}

    Anagrams

    * English ordinal numbers