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Slighting vs Plighting - What's the difference?

slighting | plighting |

As verbs the difference between slighting and plighting

is that slighting is present participle of lang=en while plighting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between slighting and plighting

is that slighting is the act of giving a slight or snub while plighting is the act by which something is plighted or pledged.

As an adjective slighting

is in the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative.

slighting

English

Verb

(head)
    • His slighting of the company chairman was considered to be inappropriate behaviour.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a slight or snub.
  • * 1848 , Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson (page 376)
    • now flocked about him, striving who should express most respect, and, by an extraordinary officiousness, redeem their late slightings .

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    plighting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is plighted or pledged.
  • * 1840 , Leigh Hunt, The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed (page 55)
    • There was a practice in those times, generated, like other involuntary struggles against wrong, by the absurdities in authority, of resorting to marriages, or rather plightings of troth, made in secret, and in the eye of heaven.