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plight

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Scrabble points
12
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14
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6
Pronunciation
/plaɪt/

Definition of plight

13 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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. (archaic)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. (obsolete)Good health.
    “All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].”
  4. (dialectal)Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
  5. (dialectal)An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
  6. (dialectal)Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
  7. (dialectal)One's office; duty; charge.
  8. (archaic)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”
  9. (obsolete)A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
    “Many a folded plight.”

verb

  1. (archaic, transitive)To expose to risk; to pledge.
  2. (transitive)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."”
  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.”
  4. (obsolete)To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
    “ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).

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