Difference between Committed and Pledged

What is the difference between Committed and Pledged?

Committed as a verb is to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. while Pledged as a verb is to make a solemn promise (to do something).

Committed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: obligated by a pledge to some course of action showing commitment associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship

Example sentence: Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

Pledged

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a solemn promise (to do something).

We hope you now know whether to use Committed or Pledged in your sentence.

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