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:

• 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