plight
noun
a condition, state, or situation, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one.
had plighted
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past perfectof plight.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Through the long night, wakeful and wretched, she brooded over the painful difference between the woman to whom Alden had plighted his troth and the beautiful stranger whom he saw every day.
From Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed
The King of Tunis, hearing the heavy news, sent his ambassadors, clad all in black, to King Guglielmo, complaining of the ill observance of the faith which he had plighted him.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
She had plighted her troth in youth to Dickens and to Thackeray, and to these she had remained ever faithful.
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
Once more she refused him, and in order to make sure that the scene should not be repeated, she told him that she had plighted her troth to his brother.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
Since she had plighted her troth to another, it was all over, so far as Walter himself was concerned.
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. (Annie Shepherd) Swan
