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Encyclopedia Britannica



PLIGHT

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 841 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PLIGHT , an homonymous word now used chiefly with two meanings, (I) pledge, and (2)
condition
  or state. The first appears more generally in the verbal form, " to plight one's troth," &c., and the second with a
direct
  or implied sense of misfortune. The derivations of the two words show they are quite distinct in origin. The O. Eng. pliht meant danger or
risk
 , hence
risk
  of
obligation
  (cf. Ger. Pflicht, Du. plicht, care, duty). The
root
  pleh- or pleg- is probably also to be seen in the much disputed word " pledge." The M. Eng. plit or plyt, on the other hand, is an
adaptation
  of O. Fr. ploit,
fold
 , and therefore a doublet of " plait," but appears in the 14th
century
  with the neutral sense of
condition
  or state in
general
 .


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