Results for promise
Definitions of promise:
part of speech: noun
Promiser, promisor.
part of speech: verb
To assure by a binding declaration; to engage or undertake to do, or not to do; to afford hopes or expectation.
part of speech: noun
An engagement to do or not to do something: expectation or that which affords expectation.
part of speech: verb transitive
To make an engagement to do or not to do something: to afford reason to expect: to assure: to engage to bestow.
part of speech: noun
An engagement to do or not to do something; the thing to be done or left undone; a cause or ground for hope or expectation.
part of speech: noun
Word pledged; a declaration or engagement, more or less formal, to another; hopes; expectation.
part of speech: verb transitive
To assure, or engage to do, something; give reason for hope or expectation.
part of speech: verb transitive
To engage to do or not to do for another; give reason to hope for.
Usage examples for promise:
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Do promise won't you?
"Rosy", Mrs. Molesworth -
" Well, will you promise to say nothing about me?
"Stingaree", E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung -
So now, I don't open this door till you promise
"Simon", J. Storer Clouston -
You must promise me that you will not write.
"The Duke's Children", Anthony Trollope