(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 .
Prophecy
Definition:
(n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
(n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
(n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) JGB: I think science fiction always has had a predictive role, and many of its prophecies have come true.
(2) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(3) Intrusive thoughts – especially anxious ones about erectile capacity – very often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(4) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(5) Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke of his vision of that prophecy with the following words: Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world.
(6) To fulfil Wenger’s prophecy about Walcott’s evolution it would make sense for him to get a clutch of games to develop his rhythm.
(7) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
(8) This behavior results in a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
(9) West’s novels have an astonishing record of prophecy.
(10) Her prophecy came true, with her grandson coming to London as a research fellow at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts) in 1974.
(11) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
(12) If one child does not come to school that is too high a price to pay ... and then in educational terms it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
(13) As with all prophecies of doom, or indeed those of an impending economic boom, we should treat such visions with caution.
(14) The message that even if you don’t like Putin, there is no alternative, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the state machine that ensures no opposition forces can ever get too much oxygen.
(15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
(16) But DeMoro insisted he had a meaningful chance of becoming president and dismissed the concerns as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” by Democratic party leaders.
(17) This report deals with the influence of the self-fulfilling prophecy on dental prophylaxis.
(18) In order for an awake intubation to be successful, it is absolutely essential that the patient be properly prepared; otherwise, the anesthesiologist will simply fulfill a self-defeating prophecy.
(19) This prophecy may have seemed far-fetched when first published in 1903, but it was to prove more and more compelling as the century advanced.
(20) Whatever its origins, the Bugarach prophecy has implanted itself in France's collective consciousness.