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Promise   /prˈɑməs/   Listen
Promise

noun
1.
A verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future.
2.
Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future.  Synonym: hope.
verb
(past & past part. promised; pres. part. promising)
1.
Make a promise or commitment.  Synonym: assure.
2.
Promise to undertake or give.
3.
Make a prediction about; tell in advance.  Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate.
4.
Give grounds for expectations.  "The results promised fame and glory"



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"Promise" Quotes from Famous Books



... choked with the reproaches with which she thought herself able to confound him and which she had not time to give vent to, vowed to ease her mind of them upon the first opportunity, notwithstanding the promise she had made; but never more ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... of promise Bruce seemed to pour forth an even greater energy; and in his efforts he was now aided by Mr. Wilson, the Indianapolis lawyer, who was spending his entire time in Westville. Katherine caught in Bruce's ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... you something. But I may say I'm rather nervous. You'll promise not to set Bogie at me or strangle ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919 • Various
... nationu cratia, which plainly expresses gratitude for good luck in childbirth;[409] and this inscription is one of the oldest we possess. Nor do they tell us whether there was a previous vow or promise of which the offering is the fulfilment. But in the majority of inscriptions of late date the familiar letters V.S.L.M. (votum solvit lubens merito) betray the nature of the transaction, and it is not unreasonable to guess that ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler
... to think of that!' she answered hastily, shaking her head. 'When I get home all will be prepared—it is ready even now—the things for the party, the furniture, Mr. Heddegan's new suit, and everything. I should require the courage of a tropical lion to go home there and say I wouldn't carry out my promise!' ...
— Victorian Short Stories, - Stories Of Successful Marriages • Elizabeth Gaskell, et al.


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