plighted

By making the implementation an executive action headed by Washington, Jefferson and Madison demonstrated that, “plighted faith” notwithstanding, they were taking no chances.

William Shakespeare wrote in "King Lear" that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."

Well, in the words of Cordelia, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.”

Nay, more, I am yours, plighted to you by bonds I cannot and I dare not break--vows, I mean, the most solemn, as well as the ties of long affection.

She felt that her heart and her faith must be plighted to Albert of Morseiul at that moment, or, perhaps, never.