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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

... To what a woful Plight have I brought myself! Here must I (all Day long, 'till I am hang'd) be confin'd to hear the Reproaches of a Wench who lays her Ruin at my Door—I am in the Custody of her Father, and to be sure, if he knows of the matter, I shall have a fine time on't betwixt this and my Execution.—But ...

— The Beggar's Opera • John Gay

... and a profligate, and had got into a house of ill-fame, from which he came out in sorry plight. He complained bitterly that M. Farsetti had refused to lend him four louis, and he asked me to speak to his mother that she might pay for his cure. I consented, but when his mother heard what was the matter with him, she said it would be much better to leave him ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... ended if the Peace Conference would let it—we have seen an imaginative revolt against war, not on the part of mere men of letters, but on the part of soldiers. Ballads have survived from other wars, depicting the plight of the mutilated ...

— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd

... some Earth station aware of our plight. Conditions were against us. There were very few observers, in the high-powered Earth stations who knew that an exploring party was on the Moon. Perhaps none of them. The Government officials who had sanctioned the expedition—and Halsey ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various

... thyself. I see thee! I see thee, o king! Thou art seen, O Naishadha, Hiding thyself behind those shrubs, why dost thou not reply unto me? It is cruel of thee, O great king, that seeing me in this plight and so lamenting, thou dost not, O king, approach and comfort me. I grieve not for myself, nor for anything else. I only grieve to think how thou wilt pass thy days alone, O king. In the evening oppressed with hunger and thirst and fatigue, underneath the trees, how ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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