plighting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of plight

noun

1. The act by which something is plighted or pledged.

   “There was a practice in those times, generated, like other involuntary struggles against wrong, by the absurdities in authority, of resorting to marriages, or rather plightings of troth, made in secret, and in the eye of heaven.”