Plighting vs Lighting - What's the difference?
plighting | lighting |
The act by which something is plighted or pledged.
* 1840 , Leigh Hunt, The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed (page 55)
The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
* 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
The process of annealing metals.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between plighting and lighting
is that plighting is the act by which something is plighted or pledged while lighting is the equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.As a verb plighting
is .plighting
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(en noun)- There was a practice in those times, generated, like other involuntary struggles against wrong, by the absurdities in authority, of resorting to marriages, or rather plightings of troth, made in secret, and in the eye of heaven.
lighting
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(wikipedia lighting) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings , so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?