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单词 plighted
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plightedadj.1

Brit. /ˈplʌɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈplaɪdᵻd/
Forms:

α. Middle English iplygte, Middle English iplyth, Middle English plight, Middle English pliht, Middle English ypliȝt.

β. 1500s– plighted.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plight v.1, -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < plight v.1 + -ed suffix1.The α. forms show syncopated forms.
Now rare (chiefly archaic).
1. Of a thing: given in pledge or assurance; solemnly promised.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adjective] > promised or vowed
behotenc1200
hotena1325
plightedc1325
fasted1440
promised1449
pledged1552
faithed1556
behighted1571
voted1586
vowed1590
sacramental1665
avowed1720
sworn1819
arrhal1873
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3819 Sikernesse & treuþe ypliȝt of þis voreward hii nome.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.iiiv Nor greatly with theyr own hard hap dismayd, Nor plighted fayth, prone in sharp time to break.
1567 G. Turberville tr. A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 156v I broken haue my plighted Hest.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 70 Where plighted faith, and sacro-sanctius vowe Hath giuen possession, dispossesse not thou.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 70 Perfidious Mars long plighted Leagues divides. View more context for this quotation
1716 J. Gay in M. W. Montagu Court Poems 21 False is the crafty Courtier's plighted word.
1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler iii. i The King must perform His plighted promise.
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xvi. 254 Monsieur, you have the plighted faith of ‘un gentil-homme Français’, for your safety.
1893 F. Thompson Poems 72 The Assisian, who kept plighted faith to three, to Song, to Sanctitude, and Poverty.
1946 G. Hopkins tr. F. Mauriac Woman of Pharisees ix. 100 The dead woman was still in his eyes a heroine who might have died for love but would never have been false to her plighted word.
2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Jan. c2 The moral obligations to preserve untarnished Virginia's integrity and plighted faith.
2. Of a person: bound by a pledge; engaged; betrothed.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adjective] > bound by promise
troth-plighta1300
sworna1325
plightedc1390
assured1426
jurate1433
abjured1552
sure1567
trothed1567
obliged1600
testeda1616
ingudged1650
betrothed1651
sacramental1785
undertaking1786
oath-bound1795
committed1821
word-bound1836
tied1876
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 116 I..was his pliht prentys.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1044 Þou haly bischop and preste plight.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 579 I promis'd my Lavinia for your Bride: Her from her plighted Lord by force I took.
1729 T. Cooke Tales 31 Soon as the Maid was from her Wound restor'd, Her all she yielded to her plighted Lord.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies xii Unless they were plighted lovers.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 219 He rose, and sought his plighted one.
1985 Financial Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. 25 Jackie Lye as Grusha and Michael Garner as her plighted lover Simon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plightedadj.2

Forms: 1500s plyted, 1500s–1600s plighted, 1600s plited.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plight v.2, -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < plight v.2 + -ed suffix1. Compare plight adj. and earlier plaited adj., pleated adj., platted adj.1
Obsolete.
Plaited, pleated, or folded.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [adjective] > arranged in folds or pleated
rideledc1400
plaited1440
rivelled1482
pleated1483
pinched1500
plighted1502
plightc1530
tucked1530
well-plighted1590
furbelowc1680
quilled1694
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. v. sig. k.i Sleuys with syde lappes or plyted.
1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. 82 Complicatus: Plighted. Folden vp.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cvijv This all-affrighting Comet I haue heard To be the plighted tresse of Meropes.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 67 She [sc. Boadicea] wore a plighted Garment of divers colours, with a great gold'n Chain.
1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders 152 A black plited cloak.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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