PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Troth continues a Middle English and Old English fidelity noun and is reported in English from the twelfth century.
/trɔːθ/ · noun
Pledged fidelity, good faith, or betrothal; a surviving historical twin of truth rather than a later poetic fabrication.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Publishes the inherited route and early horizon.
Etymology and First Known Use: 12th centuryIndependently shows the word is inherited.
Etymology: variant of Middle English treuthe from Old English trēowthThe rare modern register does not make the word historically recent.