Pledge vs Committal - What's the difference?
pledge | committal |
To make a solemn promise (to do something).
To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
* 1773 ,
* 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult
A solemn promise to do something.
Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned.
A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but not yet formally approved.
A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
A drinking toast.
A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.
The act of entrusting something to someone.
The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
The act of perpetrating an offence.
The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
Of or relating to a committee.
As nouns the difference between pledge and committal
is that pledge is a solemn promise to do something while committal is the act of entrusting something to someone.As a verb pledge
is to make a solemn promise (to do something).As an adjective committal is
of or relating to a committee.pledge
English
(wikipedia pledge)Verb
(pledg)- HARDCASTLE [Taking the cup.] I hope you'll find it to your mind. I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable. Will you be so good as to pledge me, sir? Here, Mr. Marlow, here is to our better acquaintance. [Drinks.]
- Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,
- And pledge me in it first for courtesy.