pledge
/plɛd͡ʒ/ verbe B2En français : promettre, mettre en gage
- To make a solemn promise (to do something). · pledge allegiance to the flag
- To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
- To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
He/she/it pledges · Prétérit pledged · Participe passé pledged · Forme en -ing pledging
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Dans la bibliothèque
Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourselves to his majesty for your fealty and strict loyalty, and that at our recommendation the king consented to forget the past, as I do” (and here she extended to him her hand)—“as I now do at your entreaty.
The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox.
It might have been done under such pledges as would have prevented him from speaking of it, and yet would have affected his thoughts in the direction indicated by his remarks to his fiancée.
It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given.
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