Antonyms for pact

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pakt

Phonetic Transcription : pækt

Definition of pact

Origin : early 15c., from Old French pacte "agreement, treaty, compact" (14c.), from Latin pactum "agreement, contract, covenant," noun use of neuter past participle of pacisci "to covenant, to agree, make a treaty," from PIE root *pag- "fix, join together, unite, make firm" (cf. Sanskrit pasa- "cord, rope," Avestan pas- "to fetter," Greek pegnynai "to fix, make firm, fast or solid," Latin pangere "to fix, to fasten," Slavonic paž "wooden partition," Old English fegan "to join," fon "to catch seize").

noun agreement

Example sentences :

My pact with myself was to be revenged on him, come what might afterwards.
Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever

Donogan now knows whether it will become him to sign this pact with the enemy.
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

They failed, they broke the pact, and judgment followed them of course.
Extract from : « Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews » by Handley C.G. Moule

The only conceivable explanation was that he had made a pact with the devil.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

But respecting the Pact of Rome they were rather at issue with the Italians.
Extract from : « The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 » by Henry Baerlein

He makes a pact with the young Cæsar, by marrying Cæsar's sister Octavia.
Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield

What becomes of our pact when such a consideration as this comes in?
Extract from : « The Sign of the Spider » by Bertram Mitford

Evidently his fiancee had agreed to the pact for they were now man and wife.
Extract from : « Wanted--7 Fearless Engineers! » by Warner Van Lorne

But what was she to whom the Thing laid claim by the pact of centuries?
Extract from : « The Thing from the Lake » by Eleanor M. Ingram

And it is proposed to me that I should quietly enter into the pact and carry it out.
Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 3 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant

Synonyms for pact

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