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Promising   /prˈɑməsɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Promise  v. t.  (past & past part. promised; pres. part. promising)  
1.
To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. "To promise aid."
2.
To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.
3.
To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.
Promised land. See Land of promise, under Land.
To promise one's self.
(a)
To resolve; to determine; to vow.
(b)
To be assured; to have strong confidence. "I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced."


Promise  v. i.  
1.
To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.
2.
To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil. "Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? I fear it, I promise you."


adjective
Promising  adj.  Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.





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"Promising" Quotes from Famous Books



... materials on which Genius ought to work, and without which the most promising talent may be greatly misapplied, if not entirely lost. It was by studying closely these correct models, that the great MICHAEL ANGELO, the, sublime RAPHAEL, and other eminent masters, acquired that idea of excellence which is the result of the accumulated ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon
... to a high state of excitement in the mosques by a month of prayers and abstinence, aimed a mortal blow at the hero of Heliopolis at the instant when he was listening, without suspicion, and with his usual kindness, to a recital of pretended grievances, and was promising redress. ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago
... lessons she now handed over to Ida, whom she coached for that purpose. Summer or winter these lessons were always given out of doors, in the course of an hour's ramble in field, lane, or wood. Then Miss Wendover had a weekly class for domestic economy, a class attended by all the most promising girls, from thirteen years old upwards, within five miles. This class was held in the kitchen or housekeeper's room at the Homestead; and many were the savoury messes of broth or soup, cheap stews and meat puddings, and the jellies ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... day or two he'll come back and tell us that his sensational masterpiece is above the heads of the public, and in about three weeks' time he'll be wild with enthusiasm over a scheme to dramatise the poems of Herrick or something equally promising." ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... condition of affairs, told exactly why the works had been shut down, and finished by promising to let the matter be forgotten, regardless of the amount of property destroyed, in case ...
— Down the Slope • James Otis


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