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promissory
/ ˈprɒmɪsərɪ /
adjective
- containing, relating to, or having the nature of a promise
- insurance stipulating how the provisions of an insurance contract will be fulfilled after it has been signed
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Other Words From
- promis·sori·ly adverb
- non·promis·sory adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of promissory1
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Example Sentences
We often think of the Fifteenth Amendment as a promissory note on racial equality, that had to wait to be honored until the Civil Rights victories of the 1960s.
When the oath usually represented as promissory is sworn, a covenant with God is thereby made.
Evidence has been given, that the latter kind of oaths, viewed as promissory, brings under an engagement to God.
An unpaid promissory note is an executory contract, when paid it becomes an executed one.
The banks do not pry into his moral character: they are satisfied that he meets his overdrafts and promissory notes punctually.
Six of those last-named little promissory notes, all due on the same day, Ben, and all intrusted to me!'
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