Dictionary Entry
A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
In a Sentence
“The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “vow”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The cloister yet remainM hers ;
Though many a nun there made her vow,
Twas no religious house till now. 280
Read full poem →Or pity, when we look on you
That live without this happy vow.
How should we grieve that mu6t be seen
Read full poem →Or pity, when we look or you
Thai live without this hajipy vow.
How ahould we grieve that must be Seen
Read full poem →Di Hear me now.
Remember, it was not the marriage vow,
Nor promise e’er of chaste fidelity,
Read full poem →Promise to cherish, comfort and honour;
Vow that makes duty one with delight.
Oh, but the glory, found in no story,
Read full poem →In common and in holy course,
He fails, in spite of prayer and vow
And agonies of faith and force;
Read full poem →Your might it is that makes my weakness sweet.'
'I vow, I vow!'
'And are you happy, O, my Hero and Lord;
Read full poem →Say, wherefore thou,
As under bondage of some bitter vow,
Warblest no word,