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plight

noun
/plaɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge.

  1. derived from plicitum
  2. derived from *plictum✻
  3. derived from pleit
  4. derived from plit
  5. inherited from pliht
  6. inherited from plight
  7. inherited from plit

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.
    • Despite spending £1 billion of its own resources, that balanced budget became impossible and forced TfL to issue a 'Section 114' notice of impending financial plight and go to the government for support.

  2. 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. Good health.

    • All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Responsibility for ensuing consequences

      Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.

    2. An instance of danger or peril

      An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.

    3. Blame

      Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.

    4. One's office

      One's office; duty; charge.

    5. That which is exposed to risk

      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

    6. To expose to risk

      To expose to risk; to pledge.

    7. 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."

    8. 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.

    9. To weave

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

      • ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,

    10. A network

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

      • Many a folded plight.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA