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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of plight.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • 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.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar’s daughter.

    Balzac 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. "

    Don Quixote 2002

  • 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. "

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • 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. "

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • 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. "

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 36 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • And by this hand shall never/false word plighted be.

    The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original 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.

    In the Days of Chivalry 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."

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

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