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noun

Plight n. A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. (Obs.) "Many a folded plight."

Plight n.

That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge. "That lord whose hand must take my plight."

Condition; state; risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight. "Your plight is pitied." "To bring our craft all in another plight"

verb

Plight v. t. To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.(Obs.) "To sew and plight." "A plighted garment of divers colors."

Plight v. t. (past & past part. plighted; pres. part. plighting)

To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; never applied to property or goods. " To do them plighte their troth." "He plighted his right hand Unto another love, and to another land." "Here my inviolable faith I plight."

To promise; to engage; to betroth. "Before its setting hour, divide The bridegroom from the plighted bride."

Plight v. obs. Imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.

Plight v. obs. Imp. & p. p. of Pluck.

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Etymology of 'Plight'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plight" Quotes from Famous Books

... began to kick. Giving the reins to my father, I jumped out, and ran to his assistance; but he was so prickly all over, that it was difficult to lay hold of him. His needles and pins ran into my fingers in a dozen places. To make matters worse, his nose began to bleed, so that he was in a pitiable plight. However, I picked him up at last, found he was not seriously injured, gave him a clean handkerchief (which he promised to return), and started him off again in his cart, in a sitting position this time, and ...

— Jacques Bonneval • Anne Manning

... a dark night, or if it had been snowing, we should have been in a bad plight; but the moon was our friend. The night passed away and the wolves had not made their appearance. When daylight came we were all pretty tired, and we moved the reindeer nearer to the tent. Then after the coffee was made and drunk, and some reindeer ...

— The Land of the Long Night • Paul du Chaillu

... were so roughly treated by some of our people, especially by the newly-arrived soldiers, simply because they were natives, that I was afraid they might leave us in a body; and if they had done so we should have been in a sad plight. One of my own servants, a native Christian, complained bitterly to me of the treatment ...

— Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 • James Kennedy

... plight of General Kearny, and was just starting a relief column upon a night march for the hill, when at nine o'clock one of his sentries challenged a dark figure ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... too, that he shed tears of a night over his poor family of soldiers. Only he and Frenchmen could have pulled themselves out of such a plight; but we did pull ourselves out, though, as I am telling you, it was with loss, ay, and heavy loss. The Allies had eaten up all our provisions; everybody began to betray him, just as the Red Man had foretold. The rattle-pates in Paris, who had kept quiet ever since the Imperial Guard had ...

— The Country Doctor • Honore de Balzac

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