Plighting
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act by which something is plighted or pledged.
"There was a practice in those times, generated, like other involuntary struggles against wrong, by the absurdities in authority, of resorting to marriages, or rather plightings of troth, made in secret, and in the eye of heaven."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of plight form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"There was a practice in those times, generated, like other involuntary struggles against wrong, by the absurdities in authority, of resorting to marriages, or rather plightings of troth, made in secret, and in the eye of heaven."
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