Definition of promise

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Promise (v. i.) To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration..

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Inviolable :: Inviolable (a.) Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow..
Auspicious :: Auspicious (a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning..
Accept :: Accept (v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise..
Promise :: Promise (a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act..
Compromit :: Compromit (n.) To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation..
Promise :: Promise (a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise..
Violation :: Violation (n.) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc..
Interim :: Interim (n.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.
Dawn :: Dawn (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Behight :: Behight (n.) A vow; a promise.
Parole :: Parole (n.) Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (Mil.), promise, upon one's faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against one's captors, to return to custody, or the like..
Undertake :: Undertake (v. i.) To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.
Subscribe :: Subscribe (v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars..
Pregnant :: Pregnant (a.) Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth..
Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..
Behight :: Behight (v.) To promise; to vow.
Back :: Back (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words..
Hopeful :: Hopeful (a.) Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect..
Pollicitation :: Pollicitation (n.) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made.
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