Sekirov Dictionary

plight

/plaɪt/

noun 9
verb 4
forms 4

noun9

•
A dire or unfortunate situation.
- Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both. — 2005
(dialect) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
(dialect) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
(dialect) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
(dialect) One's office; duty; charge.
•
(no longer used) A (neutral) condition or state.
- although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…]. — 1603
•
(no longer used) Good health.
- All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…]. — 1590
•
(no longer used) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
- Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty — 1603
•
(no longer used) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
- Many a folded plight. — 1590

verb4

Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
•
[with oneself] To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
- I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal. — 1992
•
(no longer used) To nominate an object of value as a security against a promise; to pledge something, as one's faith, trust, allegiance, or something symbolic of this.
- "Travel shall I and woo; Plight me shall I a flower; Try shall I my sword so good, To my weal or my woe in the stour." — 1828
•
(no longer used) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
- she wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours, — 1670

forms

plighted · yplight · plighting · plights

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