truce
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Etymology
From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹuːs/
- (US) IPA(key): /tɹus/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈtɹʉs/
- Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
truce (plural truces)
- A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
- 1732 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous Dr. Cranstoun, in a Letter to the Author at His Desire, in Dr. Cranstoun’s Own Words.”, in George Cheyne, The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, […], London: […] G[eorge] Strahan […]; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published 1733, →OCLC, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure. […]), page 321:
- [I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.
- An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 108:
- [T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.
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Translations
period of time in which no fighting takes place
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agreement between opposed parties
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Adjective
truce (plural truci)
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Further reading
- truce in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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