solemn promise

collocation in English

meaningsofsolemnandpromise

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solemn
adjective
uk
/ˈsɒl.əm/us
/ˈsɑː.ləm/
serious and without ...
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promise
noun
uk
/ˈprɒm.ɪs/us
/ˈprɑː.mɪs/
the act of saying that you will certainly ...
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(Definition ofsolemnandpromisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That has caused a great deal of anger in my constituency, because people feel that thesolemnpromisethat was given has been broken.
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On marriage a husband promises to share all his worldly goods, but thissolemnpromisein church has no legal sanction whatsoever.
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Each of them"— that is, the councillors— "had deliberately broken thesolemnpromisewhich he had given when accepting office.
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Of course, everyone knows that it was no pious prophecy at all but asolemnpromise, an election pledge, that subsidies would not be withdrawn.
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Each of them deliberately broke thesolemnpromisewhich he gave when he accepted office as councillor.
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Thesolemnpromisethat was made should be honoured.
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Each of them had deliberately broken thesolemnpromisewhich he had given when accepting office.
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Why have they now gone back on theirsolemnpromise, and why are we ruled completely out of order?
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They were induced to go there under every kind of undertaking andsolemnpromise.
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First, it was asolemnpromiseof our election manifesto.
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It is a breach of trust with the electorate and a breach of asolemnpromise.
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That was asolemnpromiseand obligation.
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I will not say he made asolemnpromise, because he did not on that occasion undertake to eat his hat if he did not keep his word.
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This signifies asolemnpromiseby both the parents to give their children in marriage to the other.
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An action for simple breach of a "covenant" (asolemnpromise) had required production of formal proof of the agreement with a seal.
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Remembering happier pre-war days and being frustrated by a dark present and an even darker future, they decide to keep thesolemnpromisegiven they made they were all children.
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He is reminded that he would have been dead already if it hadn't been for the monks and theirsolemnpromiseto make him one of them.
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Whoever got more solemn promises than we that self-government should be granted to us?
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He has gone back on the solemn promises he made.
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It is an outstanding example, to which no answer has been given, of specific and solemn promises openly and unashamedly broken.
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