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promise
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promise \Prom"ise\, v. i. To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration. To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil. Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? I fear it, I promise you. ...
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n. a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" [syn: hope ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Promise is a 2005 Finnish drama film directed by Ilkka Vanne .
Usage examples of promise.
Sri magician into the bargain, I was fed and accommodated at no expense, and promised a ship to wherever I wished to journey.
I shall leave for Naples to-morrow, and I know I shall be cured in time of the mad passion I feel for you, but if you tell me that I can accompany you to Parma, you must promise me that your heart will forever belong to me alone.
I made her promise me to let Clairmont accompany her as far as Madrid.
In a sense, we choose our own history, or more accurately, we select those vistas of history for our examinations which promise us the greatest satisfaction, and we have had little appetite to explore the possibility that our founding father was a black man.
I have promised myself to be guided entirely by your advice, and I entreat you to remain always my best friend.
And if after hearing my story you deign to give me your advice, I promise to follow it and never to divulge its author.
Seeing herself made rich by my liberality, she kissed my hands, knelt down, and bursting into tears promised to follow my advice carefully.
I promised to follow his advice, and I then paid a visit to the superintendent of police.
She listened attentively to my advice as to her conduct towards her new lover and the world in general, and promised to follow it.
Zuliani, brother to the Duchess of Fiano, gave me the same advice, and promised to use all his interest in my behalf.
But the peculiar infelicity of the Byzantine princes exposed them to domestic perils, without affording any lively promise of foreign conquest.
The Culture - the real Culture, the wily ones, not these semi-mystical Elenchers with their miserable hankering to be somebody else - had been known to give whole Affronter fleets the run-around for several months with not dissimilar enticements and subterfuges, keeping them occupied, seemingly on the track of some wildly promising prey which turned out to be nothing at all, or a Culture ship with some ridiculous but earnestly argued excuse, while the Culture or one of its snivelling client species got on - or away - with something else somewhere else, spoiling rightful Affronter fun.
He was receiving didactic courses from Ruth Hilton, who said he was absorbing the agronomy data at a satisfactory rate, and would make a promising farmer one day.
By the execution of this promise, Theodoric justly forfeited the allegiance of a people whom he devoted to destruction.
The legions, uninflamed by party zeal, were allured into civil war by liberal donatives, and still more liberal promises.