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1 [reporting verb]Assure someone that one will definitely do something or that something will happen: [with infinitive]:he promised to forward my mail [with clause]:she made him promise that he wouldn’t do it again [with direct speech]:‘I’ll bring it straightback,’ she promised [with two objects]:he promised her the job

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promiser

He was a whiner as a government critic and a reckless promiser; in 1954, without consulting colleagues, he suddenly promised to abolish the means test on age pensions.

The Internet mavens who you say promised access to everything must have been latecomers and certainly were not the first promisers.

Similarly, if a promise to do an act is an attempt to make an audience believe that the promiser will do the act, then to break a promise is for a promiser to make false a belief that the promiser created.