PROMISSORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does promissory mean? 

• PROMISSORY (adjective)
  The adjective PROMISSORY has 1 sense:

1. relating to or having the character of a promise

  Familiarity information: PROMISSORY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMISSORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or having the character of a promise

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

promissory note

Pertainym:

promise (a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future)

Derivation:

promise (make a promise or commitment)

promise (promise to undertake or give)

 Context examples 

But at no time of my life,” said Mr. Micawber, “have I enjoyed a higher degree of satisfaction than in pouring my griefs (if I may describe difficulties, chiefly arising out of warrants of attorney and promissory notes at two and four months, by that word) into the bosom of my friend Copperfield.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)