pledge

«pledge» in Mova's school dictionary: to promise firmly, giving your word or faith — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (pledge, pledges, pledged, pledging); noun (pledge, pledges)

meaning for a pupil

1) To pledge is to promise firmly, giving your word or faith. tree →

2) A pledge is a solemn promise. tree →

3) A pledge is an item left as a security for a debt, or as a sign that you will keep your word. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a king or a hero makes a pledge, a sworn promise to do or give something; people pledge their faith or word to one another

examples

• "I give that pledge," said Iollan. tree →
• "We pledge it," said they. tree →
• "I pass it and pledge it," cried the joyful king. tree →
• The children made a pledge to keep the secret. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down;
• No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
• When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
• And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pledge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.