Significats de solemn engagement en anglès

A solemn engagement to the Lord, and among ourselves, in a sure covenant.

Pardon me the repetition, madame; but a positive and solemn engagement becomes absolutely necessary.

He seized it-despitea solemn engagement to the contrary.

If it is lawful to contract a solemn engagement with man, why not with God?

No solemn engagement and no pious resolution has any weight in the balance against a cultural fatality of this magnitude.

Sir Edward Goschen replied that fear of consequences would hardly be regarded as an excuse for breaking a solemn engagement.

Sir William Goschen replied, that fear of consequences would hardly be regarded as an excuse for breaking a solemn engagement.

There has been a solemn engagement between them ever since October-formed at Weymouth, and kept a secret from every body.

Perhaps, after all, he had looked upon the whole affair, not as a solemn engagement, but as a childish farce.

Slowly the grand abnegation, the solemn engagement, was formed; every sentence recited without haste, and with full consciousness of all its obligations.

He would go nowhere into society without recalling to mind the fact that he was bound by the chains of a solemn engagement.

He neither regards the rules of civilized warfare, nor even his most solemn engagements.

"So it would seem; and yet both refer to the same solemn engagement!"

But I do strictly and sternly object to the scandal of violent separations, open breaches of solemn engagements, a public rupture.

I call to witness that dreadful lake, which I never saw, but which we gods swear by in our most solemn engagements.

Their ambition, their breach of the most solemn engagements, their violence and cruelty, were painted with all the malignity and exaggeration of party hatred.