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committed, ppl. a.|kəˈmɪtɪd|
[f. commit + -ed1.]
a. Entrusted, delegated; put in prison; done, perpetrated, etc.: see the verb.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 972 The dire thought of his committed evil. 1649Lovelace Althea in Prison, Like committed linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing. 1660Hist. Indep. iv. 10 The sad remembrance of their committed crimes. 1846Trench Mirac. ix. (1862) 211 The Church binds and looses by a committed, and not an inherent power.
b. [tr. Fr. engagé.] Characterized by commitment (6 c).
1950B. Frechtman tr. Sartre's What is Literature? p. vii, The worst artists are the most committed. Look at the Soviet painters. 1952Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 108/4 Both writers are..unprejudiced as far as being ‘committed’ will allow. 1954V. Cronin Golden Honeycomb 198 It may be that the fresco is less obsessed by Death than by contemporary social conditions, that it is in fact ‘committed’ art. 1959Books of Month Apr. 2/1 Christopher Logue..has become ‘engaged’, or ‘committed’, which means that he is striving to write poetry touching the everyday life of ordinary people. 1959Economist 30 May 858/2 Communists are familiar with the idea of ‘committed’ literature. 1965Guardian 10 Sept. 11/5 Bees..swarming..round the heads of committed young painters.
Hence coˈmmittedness.
1958Listener 17 July 103/1 The kind of self-detachment that makes contemporary talk of committedness sound rather silly. |