Troth vs Twoth - What's the difference?
troth | twoth |
(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
(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
* {{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=
* {{quote-book
, year=2009
, year_published=
, edition=
, editor=
, author=Alan Black
, title=Steel Walls and Dirt Drops
, chapter=
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)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
* * *twoth
English
Adjective
(-)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. }}
citation, passage=The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed. }}
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. }}