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noun
1.
a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
2.
something delivered as security for the payment of a debt or fulfillment of a promise, and subject to forfeiture on failure to pay or fulfill the promise.
3.
the state of being given or held as security: to put a thing in pledge.
4.
Law.
a.
the act of delivering goods, property, etc., to another for security.
b.
the resulting legal relationship.
5.
EXPANDsomething given or regarded as a security.
6.
a person accepted for membership in a club, fraternity, or sorority, but not yet formally approved.
7.
an assurance of support or goodwill conveyed by drinking a person's health; a toast.
8.
COLLAPSEObsolete.
a.
a hostage.
b.
a person who becomes bail or surety for another.
verb (used with object)
9.
to bind by or as if by a pledge: to pledge hearers to secrecy.
10.
to promise solemnly: to pledge one's support.
11.
to give or deposit as a pledge; pawn.
12.
to stake, as one's honor.
13.
EXPANDto secure by a pledge; give a pledge for.
14.
to accept as a pledge for club, fraternity, or sorority membership.
15.
COLLAPSEto drink a health or toast to.
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verb (used without object)
Idiom16.
to make or give a pledge: to pledge for someone.
17.
to drink a pledge; toast someone's health, success, etc.
18.
take the pledge, to make a solemn, formal vow to abstain from intoxicating drink.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English plege < Anglo-French < early Medieval Latin plevium, plebium, derivative of plebīre to pledge < Germanic; compare Old English plēon to risk, German pflegen to look after. See plight2
1275–1325; Middle English plege < Anglo-French < early Medieval Latin plevium, plebium, derivative of plebīre to pledge < Germanic; compare Old English plēon to risk, German pflegen to look after. See plight2
Related forms
pledge·a·ble, adjective
pledg·er, noun
pledge·less, adjective
in·ter·pledge, verb (used with object), -pledged, -pledg·ing.
pre·pledge, verb (used with object), -pledged, -pledg·ing; noun
EXPANDqua·si-pledge, verb, -pledged, -pledg·ing.
re·pledge, verb (used with object), -pledged, -pledg·ing, noun
un·pledged, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
2. warranty, surety, guaranty.
2. warranty, surety, guaranty.
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pledge
mid-14c., "surety, bail," from O.Fr. plege (Fr. pleige) "hostage, security, bail," probably from Frank. *plegan "to guarantee," from a W.Gmc. root meaning "have responsibility for" (cf. O.Saxon plegan "vouch for," O.H.G. pflegan "to care for, be accustomed to," O.E. pleon "to risk, expose to danger").
EXPANDMeaning "allegiance vow attested by drinking with another" is from 1630s. Sense of "solemn promise" first recorded 1814, though this meaning is from c.1400 in the verb. Weekley notes the "curious contradiction" in pledge "to toast with a drink" (1540s) and pledge "the vow to abstain from drinking" (1833). Noun meaning "student who has agreed to join a fraternity or sorority" dates from 1901.
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