noun, verb
noun a formal and serious promise, especially a religious one, to do sth:
to make / take a vow * to break / keep a vow * to break your marriage vows * Nuns take a vow of chastity.
verb to make a formal and serious promise to do sth or a formal statement that is true: [Vtoinf] She vowed never to speak to him again. * [V(that)] He vowed (that) he had not hurt her. * [VN] They vowed eternal friendship. [also Vspeech]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for vow is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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