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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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