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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
plight .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar’s daughter.
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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And by this hand shall never/false word plighted be.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
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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.
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"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."
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