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Vow

noun

A solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner.

verb

(past & past part. vowed; pres. part. vowing)

Make a vow; promise.

Dedicate to a deity by a vow. Synonym: consecrate.

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... Protestant clergyman instead of a Jesuit priest. That Anne Vaux's passionate love for Garnet was for the man and not the priest, her own letters are sufficient witness, and Garnet returned the love. She took a solemn vow of obedience to the Superior of the Jesuit Mission in England, in order that she might be with him where he was, might follow his steps like a faithful dog, that his people should be her people, and his God her God. But where he died ...

— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt

... somewhere about the forest, and were replied to by hearty bellow of the rower's lungs. She was now at liberty to join my name to her own or not, as she willed. I had to wait. But how much richer was I than all the world! The future owed me nothing. I would have registered a vow to ask nothing of it. Among the many determined purposes framing which I walked home, was one to obtain a grant of that bit of land where we had sat together, and build a temple on it. The fear that it might be trodden by feet of men before I ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... shoulders; and, as, leaning on his daughter, he tottered slowly forward, almost falling on the threshold, Xanthe took a silent vow to give him a son on whom he could firmly depend—a ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... with our portrait, which I vow is a most pleasing one. Our typical legislator is of decent birth, or at least hopeful of acquiring what he rightly protests to be but 'the guinea stamp' by judiciously munificent contributions to his party's purse; ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... you trust my reckless hands so much? With no vow spoken, You gave me a goblet, which at a touch Were utterly broken! Your smile replied: "Since the glass was filled It little mattered Whether the wine were drunk or ...

— A Woman of Thirty • Marjorie Allen Seiffert

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