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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It was not thus that my father had plighted his troth to my fair mother.
From A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by M. V. Wheelhouse
Manna and Eric had helped him to buy an inn at the capital, and he had plighted his troth to the daughter of mine host of the Victoria.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
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
No other idea had seriously entered his mind since they had plighted their troth; they had not been quite ready before, that was all, he told himself.
From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by H. Weston Taylor
When the youth did come in, the scolding he got was vituperative in its violence, with the result that Percy was reluctantly forced to abandon the sweetheart to whom he had plighted his troth.
From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
