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Promise
Today’s word is Patience.
What it means
- noun
An oath or affirmation; a vow.
“When I make a promise, I always stick to it.”
- noun
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 their use.
- noun
Something promised.
“That jewelry was a promise to me.”
Where it comes from
Promise comes from Latin promissum, a thing sent forward, from promittere: pro, forth, and mittere, to send. Through French it became a person sending word ahead of the deed. A promise is still that: a statement sent on before the act.
In a sentence
- Will you promise that?by CK, Tatoeba
- "Promise?" "Yes, I promise."by DJ_Saidez, Tatoeba
- I forgot my promise.by CK, Tatoeba
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