promising
/ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/ adjective C2- Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. · a promising young apprentice
- Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
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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:
It just means vowing and promising solemnly.”
As we have seen, therefore, he permitted his former host to retire without attempting a recognition, but fully promising himself a rich indemnity for his present forbearance should chance afford him another opportunity.
Thinking that I might wish to settle in France, he left me at his departure, together with the papers establishing my identity, a letter promising, if he approved of my choice, 150,000 livres per annum from the day I was married.
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