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plightings

plightings is the plural of plighting.

Meaning of plighting

Noun

plighting (plural plightings)

  1. The act by which something is plighted or pledged.
    • There was a practice in those times, generated, like other involuntary struggles against wrong, by the absurdities in authority, of resorting to marriages, or rather plightings of troth, made in secret, and in the eye of heaven.1840, Leigh Hunt, The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed, page 55

Questions about plightings

What is plightings the plural of?
Plightings is the plural of plighting.

Words near plightings in the dictionary

  1. plighted
  2. plighter
  3. plighters
  4. plightful
  5. plighting
  6. plightings
  7. plightless
  8. plightly
  9. plights
  10. plighty
  11. pligs

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