Plighted

Word PLIGHTED
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Plighted"

What do we mean by plighted?

To expose to risk; to pledge.

Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

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The word "plighted" in example sentences

Smitten by her disinterestedness as well as by her beauty, Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar's daughter. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)

Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar’s daughter. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Give me my horse and arms, and wait for me here; I will go in quest of this knight, and dead or alive I will make him keep his word plighted to so great beauty. " ❋ Unknown (2002)

And by this hand shall never/false word plighted be. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)

Hugh, "said Master Bernard, coming up to help his old friend out of his bewilderment --" plighted, that is, by themselves, by the right of a true and loyal love. ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)

"Belike thou wilt now have good will to bow down Fafnir's crest according to thy word plighted, since thou hast thus revenged thy father and the others of thy kin." ❋ Anonymous (1873)

But when Sigurd had been at home but a little, came Regin to talk with him, and said — “Belike thou wilt now have good will to bow down Fafnir’s crest according to thy word plighted, since thou hast thus revenged thy father and the others of thy kin.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

He said: "Nay, my troth-word plighted e'en so should I draw aback: ❋ William Morris (1865)

Gold beside him, and announced that they were plighted to each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It made sense for the character to step down to another plighted/persecuted group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead he is saying that there might indeed be a direct correlation between the voodoo ceremonies (and in particular the historic satanic pact made) that occurred in Haiti with the ongoing tragedies and poverty that the country has been plighted with – this being the largest one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was plighted to Dave, and Dave was coming up on the first steamboat to get her -- that was the summer of ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The New Yorker had championed a new style, but now its editors were plighted to that style as it grew increasingly chilly and derivative. ❋ Sam Sacks (2010)

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