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Commitment   /kəmˈɪtmənt/   Listen
noun
Commitment  n.  
1.
The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison. "They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged."
2.
A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; more frequently termed a mittimus.
3.
The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
4.
A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
5.
The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.





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"Commitment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sessions of the Peace, next to be holden within and for the said county; and the master of the said house of correction is hereby required and directed to transmit an attested copy of the warrant of commitment to the said Court on the first day of their said session, and if upon trial at the said Court, it shall be made to appear that the said person has thus continued within the Commonwealth, contrary to the tenor ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams
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... Von Kettler could be seen reading a book. It was Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathusta," that compendium of aristocratic insolence that once took the world by storm, until the author's mentality was revealed by his commitment to a mad-house. Von Kettler read till midnight, closely observed by the guard at the trap, then laid the word aside with a yawn, lay down on his cot, and appeared ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various
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... and some offence taken at his supposed indiscreet propagation of it from the pulpit. "I wish I could say," adds Mr. Lindsay, "that Socinus, or his friend Blandrata, had done all in their power to prevent his commitment, or procure his release afterwards." The difference between Socinus and David was very slight. They both held Christ to be a mere man. The former, however, was for praying to him; which the latter, with ...
— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox
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... young offender was seen in the act, and the pocket-book was found in his possession. The magistrate was about to make out his commitment, when Frank stepped forward, and required what amount of bail would ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
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... general. It means no more than discussion and {65} suggestion, except perhaps publicity; but under this language of Article 11, the parties were left with their liberty of action in the matter; and indeed, under the Covenant, the Members of the League entered into no commitment against going to war in the case of a dispute about a ...
— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller
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