What's the difference between troth and wroth?

Troth


Definition:

  • (n.) Belief; faith; fidelity.
  • (n.) Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.
  • (n.) Betrothal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among gay celebrities, Sir Elton John and David Furnish will plight their troth on December 21 at Windsor Guildhall, where Prince Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles.
  • (2) Not least in the face of a new Conservative group styling itself Wealthy Nation , plighting its troth to yes and aiming for a stronger right-of-centre in an independent nation.
  • (3) Some weep with simple joy as the happy couple plight their troth.

Wroth


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
  • (2) The rise and fall of this disloyal companion closely resembles that of Somerset and would seem to indicate Wroth's belief that the King's relationship with the Earl was sexual.
  • (3) Wroth describes a duke who is made politically vulnerable by his love for a young man that leaves him "issue-les."

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