plight
noun
a condition, state, or situation, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one.
plighted
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past participleof plight.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof plight.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
plightnouna condition, state, or situation, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one.
Example Sentences
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William Shakespeare wrote in "King Lear" that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2017
Well, in the words of Cordelia, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.”
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2017
Added a Filipino columnist: "Formosa has come to mean to the free peoples of Asia one thing: the worth of America's plighted word to little nations."
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
