mispledge

present singular third person mispledges · participle present mispledging · participle past mispledged · past mispledged

1. To pledge foolishly or in error.

   Having given up her good judgment, in favour of blind submission to a love she mispledged, folly is inevitable.

   1981, Vincent Cuccaro, The Humanism of Ludovico Ariosto, page 209

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   The Dubuque and Sioux City bonds (so mispledged to the firm, and two of them by the firm to the bank) fell due July 1st, 1894 (fols. 281, 314, 340), and on demand of Randall, acting for the plaintiffs, that their proceeds should go to the estate, Bunker shifted securities so as to accomplish this (fols. 281-4).

   1897, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 622

   On the 18th inst. I first heard of my good fortune in the sight of a King (?) and in case any of my friends suspect that something unknown to them might have passed between me and the King or his advisers, I pledge my word, never wilfully mispledged, that nothing has passed on my part but that which has appeared in the Republican, and the favorable report, if anything more than official verbiage, has astounded me!

   1899, Theophila Carlile Campbell, The Battle of The Press: As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile by His Daughter

   In response to questioning by these appellants as to whether he continued to negotiate with Skrod for a renewal of the contract after he discovered that the warehouse receipts had been “mispledged” with Monitz, Bao replied “I went after Skrod Company to resume the normal business . . ."

   1960, New York Supreme Court, page 27