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Plighting vs Uplighting - What's the difference?

plighting | uplighting |

As verbs the difference between plighting and uplighting

is that plighting is while uplighting is .

As nouns the difference between plighting and uplighting

is that plighting is the act by which something is plighted or pledged while uplighting is lighting concentrated in an upward direction.

plighting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is plighted or pledged.
  • * 1840 , Leigh Hunt, The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed (page 55)
    • 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.

    uplighting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Lighting concentrated in an upward direction.

    • Verb

    (head)