(a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.
(a.) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.
(a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.
(a.) Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.
(v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.
(v. t.) To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.
(v. t.) To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.
(v. i.) To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.
(v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(3) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(4) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(5) Measuring this value therefore is a very promising procedure.
(6) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.
(7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(8) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(9) On the basis of reports in the literature and of our own clinical experience it appears that melanocyte inhibiting factor (MIF) is a very promising therapeutic agent in the management of Parkinson's disease.
(10) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(11) The 20-25 year-old cohort was found to yield the most promising results; however, a statistical difference was not found to exist using the volume or area.
(12) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(13) The use of a new ultraviolet laser combined with a holographic grating spectrograph promises to increase the number of fluorescing species that can be detected simultaneously.
(14) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
(15) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(16) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(17) The most promising method was chemoradiotherapy using multifractionation of a daily dose of irradiation, the 4-year survival rate of 20% being achieved.
(18) Trials of these therapeutic schemes promise a higher efficacy of the therapeutic measures for gastroesophageal reflux.
(19) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(20) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
Promissory
Definition:
(a.) Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bruton said that an EU deal on the Anglo Irish "promissory notes" was an important element in the overall recovery plan not just for Ireland but for Europe as a whole.
(2) Novo would sit next to him on the bus and “inhale, with a retrospective and promissory delight, the emanations of gasoline next to his body”.
(3) Johnjoe McFadden correctly points out that molecular genetics has yet to deliver on its expensive promissory notes ( Genes?
(4) After Ireland secured a deal on the so-called promissory notes to bondholders of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank, some have been urging Enda Kenny and his coalition partners to spend the saved €1bn on capital building projects to help stimulate domestic demand in the republic.
(5) Such changes would also be difficult to cover through what would effectively be a promissory note concerning post-referendum changes to labour and social legislation.
(6) He pursues this theme by placing together some of Morris's hand-carved wood blocks with the intricately self-printed promissory notes and share certificates in which Russian wealth was hastily divided in 1992.
(7) That will disappoint Dublin, which has long been pleading for a reduction in the interest rate it is being forced to pay on the "promissory notes" issued to rescue its banking sector.
(8) On 19 October 1929, just five days before the first stock market crash and 10 days before Black Tuesday, Scott Fitzgerald published a now-forgotten story called "The Swimmers," about an American working for the ironically named Promissory Trust Bank, and his realisation that American ideals have been corrupted by money.
(9) Martin Luther King spoke about the promissory note of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the very tenets this country was built on.
(10) Lenovo will pay $660m in cash, $750m in Lenovo shares, plus a $1.5bn three-year promissory note.
(11) There are so many big fundamental things happening that a promissory note of some kind to Britain may well finish up not being honoured.
(12) "That's why the €3.1bn promissory note payment due to be paid to Anglo Irish Bank on Monday is not being paid but is being replaced by long-term government bonds and the wider negotiations will continue."
(13) The Irish government, and in particular the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, have consistently claimed that fellow EU states, notably Germany, have promised funds to reduce the costs of repaying the so-called Anglo "promissory notes".