Word Finder - promise

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An oath or affirmation; a vow

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if I make a promise, I always stick to it;  he broke his promise

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A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use

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Reason to expect improvement or success; potential

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She shows great promise as an actress.

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A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation

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• deferred
• delay
• future

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Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised

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To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.

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He promised to never return to this town again.

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To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

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The clouds promise rain.

When I make a promise, I keep it.

I promise not to harm you.

I promise to behave.

I promise not to leave.

I promise not to plaster you with mud this time.

At least I obtained his promise of confidence.

I shall not be at peace till you promise me this.

Just promise me one thing, he added.

We'll go, then, and I promise to keep my hands to myself.

You have to promise whatever happens, it stays with us five of us.

Some methods and technologies that show promise to end famine are controversial.

I promise to stop yelling.

I promise, she swore just as quietly.

I had made a promise to her and I intended to keep it, regardless of the outcome.

Then I promise I'll give her back.

And yet, she had honored her promise to go with him to the party the next night.

But I will promise you that I'll never run off and leave you stranded.

Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will never take it off.

I can't promise you we'll never fight, or that I'll never take a drink.

I promise I won't go into the woods alone again.

Hannah, I promise to come back soon.

I want you to promise me you won't go into the woods alone again.

Promise me you won't bite me.

I promised to visit him again the following summer, but he died before the promise was fulfilled.

I promise to drop in and see you the very next time I'm up this way.

I.ll promise to return.

Foiled by the valour of the citizens, they sailed away and harried the coast from Essex to Hampshire. !Ethelred now resorted to the old experiment and bought them off for £16,000 and a promise of supplies.

Once the promise of this world comes to be, new ways will be created to measure even more data.

No--promise that you will not refuse!

By the promise of loo million dinars to the expropriated Begs, he won over the Moslems of Bosnia, and by similar methods he detached the Slovene section of the newly founded Agricultural party (Zemljoradnici).

He refused to appear, held his own for a time in his castle at Theres against the king's forces, but surrendered in 906, and in spite of a promise of safe-conduct was beheaded.

I took this for a promise that if I gave her some cake she would be a good girl.

She sensed danger and promise from the freaky guy loitering in the shadow world.

When the news came of the truce of Regensburg Marie claimed the fulfilment of the promise.

Olaf also visited !Ethelred at the latter's request and, receiving a most honourable welcome, was induced to promise that he would never again come to England with hostile intent, an engagement which he faithfully kept.

Sweyn died in February 1014, and Ethelred was recalled by the witan, on giving a promise to reign better in future.

In 1835 Dingaan gave permission to the British settlers at Port Natal to establish missionary stations in the country, in return for a promise made by the settlers not to harbour fugitives from his dominions.

Its object, like other Jewish apocalypses, was to encourage faith under persecution; its burden is not a call to repentance but a promise of deliverance.

He knew that after his promise to Sonya it would be what he deemed base to declare his feelings to Princess Mary.

If not, I'll make you a promise.

This result was not, however, achieved before President Kruger had done his utmost to induce Sir Henry Loch to promise some revision in favour of the Transvaal of the London Convention.

The judges had been intimidated or corrupted, and the royal promise to protect the Establishment violated.

In the second place, in direct disregard of a promise given to Frederick, a supplement to Akakia appeared, more offensive than the main text.

While with the court at the Hague, he incurred the displeasure of William by insisting that a promise of marriage, made to an English lady of high birth by a relative of the prince, should be kept; and he therefore gladly returned to England in 1680, when he was immediately appointed.

But this connexion was not found to obtain as a rule in life, and the difficulties arising from this conflict between promise and experience centred round the lot of the righteous as a community and the lot of the righteous man as an individual.

At the same time League Charles violated his promise by giving aid to the Pisans against in their revolt against Florence, and did not restore the Charles other fortresses.

His conditions were agreed to, but after he had fulfilled his promise the inhabitants, on the ground that he was a sorcerer, declined to fulfil their part of the bargain, whereupon on the 26th of June he reappeared in the streets of the town, and putting his pipe to his lips began a soft and curious strain.

At the same time there was a certain healthy aspect in the cultivation of the Meistergesang among the German middle classes of the 15th and 16th centuries; the Meistersinger poetry, if not great or even real poetry, had - especially in the hands of a poet like Hans Sachs - many germs of promise for the future.

He was employed, while very young, in some of his father's expeditions into the country beyond the Indus, gave promise of considerable military talents, and was appointed to the command of an army directed against the Uzbegs.

He supported Rupert III., elector palatine of the Rhine, in his struggle with King Wenceslaus for the German throne, probably because Wenceslaus refused to fulfil a promise to give him his sister Anna in marriage.