Plight vs Qualification - What's the difference?
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A dire or unfortunate situation.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport
, title= *2005 , Lesley Brown, translating Plato, Sophist , :
*:Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
*, II.8:
*:although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France .
(obsolete) Good health.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
*:All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight , / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares.
Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
One's office; duty; charge.
(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
* Shakespeare
To expose to risk; to pledge.
Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:
(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
* Milton
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
* Spenser
A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.
The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.
(obsolete) A quality or attribute.
*1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
*:To shew, that these Qualfications , which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society has been the subject of the foregoing Poem.
An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training.
Plight is a related term of qualification.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between plight and qualification
is that plight is (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment while qualification is (obsolete) a quality or attribute.As nouns the difference between plight and qualification
is that plight is a dire or unfortunate situation or plight can be responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril or plight can be (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment while qualification is a clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.As a verb plight
is to expose to risk; to pledge or plight can be (obsolete) to weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.plight
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header. ¶ Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at pledge.Noun
(en noun)- that lord whose hand must take my plight
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
Through (etyl), from (etyl) and Danish flette are probably unrelated.Verb
(en verb)- A plighted garment of divers colors.
Noun
(en noun)- Many a folded plight .
qualification
English
(wikipedia qualification)Noun
(en noun)- I accept your offer, but with the following qualification .
- Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.
- What are your qualifications for this job?