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Pledged vs Plightful - What's the difference?

pledged | plightful |

As a verb pledged

is past tense of pledge.

As an adjective plightful is

full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.

pledged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pledge)

    • pledge

    English

    (wikipedia pledge)

    Verb

    (pledg)
  • 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 ,
    • 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.]
  • * 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult
    • Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,
    And pledge me in it first for courtesy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

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    plightful

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) plihtful, equivalent to .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
  • *1965 , Francis X. Corrigan, Middle English readings in translation :
    • This is their doom that here in sin Lie and their sins will not cease; But would they think about Judgment Day, It behooves them to leave their plightful play.
  • *2005 , Curt Bissonette, Noble Stone :
    • Athelstan said, in a much more serious way, “It is truly a plightful time for the Angles, and it always has been, as far back as I can remember. The Northmen kill or at least mar all that they touch.
  • Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
  • *1866 , Henry J. Verlander, The bride of Rougemont :
    • She liv'd and lov'd.?I wedded two. 'The Devil!'?Yes. What could I do? To her I ow'd my plightful vow, To Ruth, my life, and freedom now.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
  • *2009 , Dr. Ulas Basar Gezgin, Vietnam & Asia in Flux, 2008 :
    • For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.
  • Pitiful.
  • *1972 , Commonweal: Volume 96:
    • In some surreal and inevitable moment, some jingle-jangle wee hour of morning, they may even have shared billing on the same campus stage: joined harmonics and harmonics, strummed out some plightful version of "Musee des Beaux Arts" [...]