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breach of promise

NOUN
  1. failure to keep a promise (of marriage)

How To Use breach of promise In A Sentence

  • Deprived at one blow of most of his precedents, "shorn" -- as the Breach of Promise Reports puts it -- "of its usual attractions," FIBBINS's speech becomes an impotent affair. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891
  • Damages for "loss of reputation" are as outmoded as the damages which husbands used to recover against co-respondents and jilted females used to recover for breach of promise. Labour MP Wins Libel Case
  • Breach of promise is the last thing that he is likely to commit.
  • But this was not a case of forgetfulness or a breach of promise; it was another misunderstanding. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mrs. Bardell let lodgings to many conversable single gentlemen, with great profit, but never brought any more actions for breach of promise of marriage. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • ‘I suppose you have not heard that one young man levanted last year to save himself from a breach of promise case?’ The Last Chronicle of Barset
  • But this was not a case of forgetfulness or a breach of promise; it was another misunderstanding. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet in such circumstances the woman who has been left in the lurch is supposed to suffer, quite apart from the damage to her affection, a sort of moral damage and disgrace from the heartlessness or fickleness of another person – the man to whom she has been engaged; and this moral damage is, I believe, taken into account in actions for breach of promise of marriage (where there is no question of seduction). Marriage as a Trade
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