Literary notes about Committed (AI summary)
The word "committed" appears in literature with a remarkable range of uses, from describing the act of perpetrating a crime or sin to conveying the delegation or entrustment of responsibility. In narratives of transgression and guilt, as seen when a crime is spoken of in stark terms ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]), the word underscores both moral and legal violations. At the same time, authors employ it to indicate the conferring of duties or the preservation of memory, such as when authority is handed over or when certain behaviors are deeply etched in one’s mind ([6], [7], [8], [9]). This versatility allows "committed" to function as a vehicle for expressing both culpability and diligent responsibility across diverse literary contexts ([10], [11], [12]).
- We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton - You hint at a crime committed, you say, by my brother.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - It is impossible to suppose that Rostopchín had scared them by his accounts of horrors Napoleon had committed in conquered countries.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - This crime has been committed either by a brute or by a sly scoundrel.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - I should like to know some one who had committed a real murder.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - The reproofs she committed to memory, going about the garden and saying them aloud like an actor memorizing his part.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson - Take heed therefore and see what it is of which the ministry is committed to thee by the laying on of the Bishop's hand.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas - But first the Bishop of Troies gave me leave to establish there a nunnery, which I did, and committed the care of it to my dear Heloise .
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse - Keep the good thing committed to thy trust by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - I should make very forges of my cheeks, That would to cinders burn up modesty, Did I but speak thy deeds.—What committed!
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare - She wasn't h4wt in the traditional sense, but there's something about a girl and a night and a beach, plus she was smart and passionate and committed.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - He that walketh deceitfully, revealeth secrets: but he that is faithful, concealeth the thing committed to him by his friend.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete