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?1567 Def. Priestes Mariages (new ed.) 225 As for the aucthoritee of sainct Augustine de bono viduitatis, where he proueth the mariages good, euen of votaries, though their promise breaking be condempned.

1616 D. Leigh Mothers Blessing xxxii. 145 It is worse then a promise breaking for it sheweth that they are full of hyprocrisie, dissemblers, and would serue the world.

1740 Diary A. Brodie 142 Leathin and Francis did..confess and bewail their..youthful Lusts of Uncleanness, and Promise-breaking to God of many Duties which they had bound themselves unto.

1800 C. Lamb Let. 13 Dec. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 251 The Play..is about promise-breaking.

1819 L. Hunt in Examiner 22 Aug. 535/1 The promise-breaking Prussian Government.

1842 C. Dickens Let. 22 Mar. (1974) III. 146 You..have set me down, I know, as a neglectful, erratic, promise-breaking, and most unworthy person.

1999 Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Oct. 18 The humbug and cynicism, the promise-breaking and lying he spent so much of his speech exposing.