"plighty" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English plighty",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English plighty, plighti, equivalent to plight + -y.",
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    {
      "form": "plightier",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "more plighty",
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    {
      "form": "plightiest",
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      "form": "most plighty",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Julian Rushton, W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni",
          "text": "[...] — as the company is so small, the impresario is in a continual flap, having to nurse his people as much as he can, in case some sudden illness should fling him into the plightiest of plights, not being able to mount any show at all!",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Ronaldo Munck, Denis O'Hearn, Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm",
          "text": "The government it can give, it loves to give to everybody, but if the government gives away that money, spreads all its money to the plighty, you know, it goes down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Hans Derks, History of the Opium Problem",
          "text": "The whole set of them were in a most plighty condition. Many were in rags, and not a few had their bodies covered with most offensive sores.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "Relating to or indicating plight; misfortunate; dire; precarious; needy"
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          "plight"
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          "misfortunate",
          "misfortunate"
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          "dire",
          "dire"
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        [
          "precarious",
          "precarious"
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        [
          "needy",
          "needy"
        ]
      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪti"
    }
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  "word": "plighty"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English plighty, plighti, equivalent to plight + -y.",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "more plighty",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "plightiest",
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      "form": "most plighty",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1981, Julian Rushton, W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni",
          "text": "[...] — as the company is so small, the impresario is in a continual flap, having to nurse his people as much as he can, in case some sudden illness should fling him into the plightiest of plights, not being able to mount any show at all!",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Ronaldo Munck, Denis O'Hearn, Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm",
          "text": "The government it can give, it loves to give to everybody, but if the government gives away that money, spreads all its money to the plighty, you know, it goes down.",
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        }
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          "misfortunate",
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          "dire",
          "dire"
        ],
        [
          "precarious",
          "precarious"
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          "needy",
          "needy"
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  "word": "plighty"
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