breach of promise

1. 1.

   failure to keep a promise (of marriage)

   Broaderbreach of contract

Questions about breach of promise

What does breach of promise mean?

breach of promise means "failure to keep a promise (of marriage)".

Is breach of promise a common word?

breach of promise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.