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a pledge or promise to marry someone (countable, archaic • 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.
 wiktionary.org); an oath, pledge, or promise (countable, archaic • And by my faith and troth I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence! wiktionary.org • Hagen of Troneg now foully broke his troth to Siegfried.
); the state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement (countable, archaic • I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.
wiktionary.org); truth; something true (countable, uncountable, archaic • [John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit. wiktionary.org • I can̄ot lerne Banister's confession upon the racke as yet; but he was put to the racke for denying of moost manifest trothes at the first.
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