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verb

Promise v. t. (past & past part. promised; pres. part. promising)

1.

To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. "To promise aid."

2.

To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.

3.

To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.

Promised land. See Land of promise, under Land.

To promise one's self.

(a)

To resolve; to determine; to vow.

(b)

To be assured; to have strong confidence. "I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced."

Promise v. i.

1.

To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.

2.

To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil. "Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? I fear it, I promise you."

adjective

Promising adj. Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.

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"Promising" Quotes from Famous Books

... completed within a month. It left Arthur in possession of private personal means not exceeding a few hundred pounds; but it opened to him an active and promising career. The three friends dined together on the auspicious occasion; the factory and the factory wives and children made holiday and dined too; even Bleeding Heart Yard dined and was full of meat. Two months had barely gone by in all, when Bleeding ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... the death of Sylla, procured the recall of those whom Sylla had banished. He had all along declared for the populace against the senate, and became their most favourite magistrate. 29. This consummate statesman began by offering his services to Pompey, promising to assist him in getting all his acts passed, notwithstanding the senate's opposition. Pompey, pleased at the acquisition of a person of so much merit, readily granted him his confidence and protection. 30. He next applied ...

— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith

... seeing that he was so shabbily dressed: he would wait at the other end of the town. Of course I took in all he said as gospel, or the next approaching it. I entered the first tavern that hove insight, he promising to "stay about." ...

— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End

... of Blood—(and you have left me here, and gone away with God)—shall never pause from working for you. I beg you so to do that you give me no matter for mourning, nor for shaming me in the sight of God. As you are a man in promising the will to do and bear for the honour of God, do not then turn into a woman when we come to the shutting of the lock; for I should appeal against you to Christ crucified and to Mary. Beware lest it happen later to you as to the abbot of St. Antimo, who, ...

— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa

... once seeing a friendship of a rather promising kind forming between two people, one of whom had a touch of what I may call "county" vulgarity, by which I mean an undue recognition of "the glories of our birth and state." It was a deep-seated fault, and emerged in a form which is not uncommon among people of that type—namely, ...

— At Large • Arthur Christopher Benson

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