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Acknowledgment
noun · 78% connection
A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Affiance
verb · 78% connection
To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Affirmation
noun · 78% connection
A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Assumpsit
noun · 78% connection
An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Assure
verb · 78% connection
To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Compromise
noun · 78% connection
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Declaration
noun · 78% connection
The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclama…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Earnest
noun · 78% connection
Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Engage
verb · 78% connection
To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Engagement
noun · 78% connection
That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise emba…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Forfeit
noun · 78% connection
To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Frankpledge
noun · 78% connection
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Gage
noun · 78% connection
To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Guarantee
noun · 78% connection
In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
On
preposition · 78% connection
By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Parole
noun · 78% connection
Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially (Mil.), promise, upon one's faith and honor, to fulfill stated conditions,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Pass
verb · 78% connection
To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
Pawn
noun · 78% connection
Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pledge, some, declaration, promise.
