plight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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[…].”

3. isim Good health.

   “All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].”

4. isim Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
5. isim An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
6. isim Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
7. isim One's office; duty; charge.
8. isim 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”

9. fiil To expose to risk; to pledge.
10. fiil Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

    “"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."”

11. fiil 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.”

12. fiil To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

    “ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,”

13. isim A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

    “Many a folded plight.”