plighted
Example Sentences
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William Shakespeare wrote in "King Lear" that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2017
Well, in the words of Cordelia, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.”
From Washington Post • May 28, 2017
The two plighted their troth in what was destined to become one of the strangest and most durable extracurricular alliances of modern times.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
