Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of plight.

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Examples

  • As Africans, especially as those who have benefited from African solidarity, we cannotbe unmoved by the pliht of African brothers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Skeat derives this word from A.S. _pliht_, danger; others connect it with

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

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