yplight

Verb (1)

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (archaic, transitive) To nominate an object of value as a security against a promise; to pledge something, as one's faith, trust, allegiance, or something symbolic of this.
   • "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."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 170
2. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
3. (reflexive) 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.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 226

Verb (2)

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
   • ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 67

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Adjective

plighted (comparative more plighted, superlative most plighted)

1. (obsolete) Having plights; pleated; plated; folded.
   • Clothes ſhall not bee tacked oꝛ plighted tyll the Auneger hath ſearched them.1588, A Collection in English, of the Statutes now in force, […] , London: […] Deputies of Chriſtopher Barker