plight
noun
a condition, state, or situation, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one.
will plight
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future tenseof plight.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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And I too, royal sir," cried old Sir Philip Beauchamp; "I will plight land and liberty, life and honour, that he is as true as my good sword.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
"And now, as fitting is and right, We in the church our faith will plight, A husband and a wife."
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
"For mercy's sake! this ae night, Jenny, Oh let me scoug frae the wind and rain, And holy vows I will plight thee, hinny, That thou wilt be for ever mine ain."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
“And now, as fitting is and right, We in the Church our faith will plight, A husband and a wife.”
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
Lord Sedley!"—"I will be known to you," said he, "by no other name than that by which I will plight my troth, Arthur de Vallance.—What has my Isabel to say to me in that character?
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
