Definition of vow

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Vow (n.) Specifically, a promise of fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow..

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Vow :: Vow (v. i.) To make a vow, or solemn promise..
Unowned :: Unowned (a.) Not acknowledged; not avowed.
Celibate :: Celibate (n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry..
Infidelity :: Infidelity (n.) Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.
Bedswerver :: Bedswerver (n.) One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.
Ablaut :: Ablaut (n.) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung..
Monk :: Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty..
Guna :: Guna (n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages..
Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel..
Advocation :: Advocation (n.) Advowson.
Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..
Appendant :: Appendant (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house..
Avow :: Avow (n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow..
Avower :: Avower (n.) One who avows or asserts.
Vocalic :: Vocalic (a.) Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.
Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..
Celibacy :: Celibacy (n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry..
Breathe :: Breathe (v. t.) To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow..
Dieresis :: Dieresis (n.) A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial..
Protest :: Protest (v. i.) To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.
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