Plight vs Suit - What's the difference?
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A dire or unfortunate situation.
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*:Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
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*:although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France .
(obsolete) Good health.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
*:All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight , / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares.
Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
One's office; duty; charge.
(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
* Shakespeare
To expose to risk; to pledge.
Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
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(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
* Milton
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
* Spenser
A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
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, title= (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
(pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
A full set of armour.
(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
(obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
The full set of sails required for a ship.
(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.
(obsolete) Regular order; succession.
(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
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To be appropriate or apt for.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
:Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) To dress; to clothe.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:So went he suited to his watery tomb.
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to fit one's taste.
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(lb) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by to'', archaically also followed by ''with .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The place itself was suiting to his care.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
Plight is a related term of suit.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between plight and suit
is that plight is (archaic) that which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge while suit is (archaic) a group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc).In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between plight and suit
is that plight is (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment while suit is (obsolete) the act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.As nouns the difference between plight and suit
is that plight is a dire or unfortunate situation or plight can be responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril or plight can be (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment while suit is a set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.As verbs the difference between plight and suit
is that plight is to expose to risk; to pledge or plight can be (obsolete) to weave; to braid; to fold; to plait while suit is to make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.plight
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header. ¶ Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at pledge.Noun
(en noun)- that lord whose hand must take my plight
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
Through (etyl), from (etyl) and Danish flette are probably unrelated.Verb
(en verb)- A plighted garment of divers colors.
Noun
(en noun)- Many a folded plight .
suit
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
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- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).