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promising

/ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/ noun B2
  1. The act of making a promise.

Plural promisings

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By thus exaggerating to his own mind the anticipated ill-fortune of the next day, to which he had condemned himself by promising Mercédès to spare her son, the count at last exclaimed:
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 902 · C1
When the two were established at a well-appointed table, with a promising waiter hovering in attendance, Chandler began to experience the real joy that his regular outing always brought to him.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 30 · C1
It just means vowing and promising solemnly.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 84 · C1
Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats, no longer sat at the same desk, and a promising friendship of three years was broken up.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 201 · C1

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