Promising vs Delighting - What's the difference?
promising | delighting |
Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
The act of making a promise.
* 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
As verbs the difference between promising and delighting
is that promising is while delighting is .As an adjective promising
is showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.As a noun promising
is the act of making a promise.promising
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".