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单词 to sign a pledge
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to sign a pledge
c. A document setting out a promise or commitment, to which a person assents by signing; the promise or commitment so set out. Usually in to sign a pledge (cf. sense 2d).
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1791 To Right Reverend John, Bishop of Centuria (Committee of Eng. Catholics) 22 Signing a pledge of civil submission to temporal government, would do more hurt than all the former persecutions of heretics.
1835 Times 25 Dec. 1/3 The Directors, and all officers and Clerks of the Company, sign a pledge of secrecy as to the transactions of the Company with their customers.
1850 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 41 He [sc. Oliver Cromwell] forced a portion of one of his Parliaments to sign a pledge of fidelity to his person and government.
1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 30 I shall not leave this room until I have His Majesty's signed pledge that its conditions will be observed.
1988 S. Rosenberg Soviet Odyssey iii. 30 The officer had threatened to shoot her son if she did not sign a pledge to cooperate with the Gestapo.
2003 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 2 He called on the audience to sign pledges that they will take part in ‘non-violent action’ to prevent the bulldozers moving in.
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