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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Plight, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Plighting.]
 1. To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods. To do them plighte their troth.”
 He plighted his right hand
 Unto another love, and to another land.   --Spenser.
    Here my inviolable faith I plight.   --Dryden.
 2. To promise; to engage; to betroth.
 Before its setting hour, divide
 The bridegroom from the plighted bride.   --Sir W. Scott.