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A vow (Lat. votum, vow, promise; see vote) is a promise or oath. A vow is used as a promise that is solemn rather than casual. Marriage vows are binding...

A vow of silence is a vow taken to avoid the use of speech. Although the concept is commonly associated with monasticism, no religious order takes such...

five vows. The commentaries describe seven types of lay followers: Promising to keep just one vow. Promising to keep certain vows. Promising to keep most...

Marriage vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony based upon Western Christian norms. They are not universal...

The Bodhisattva vow is a vow (Sanskrit: praṇidhāna, lit. aspiration or resolution) taken by some Mahāyāna Buddhists to achieve full buddhahood for the...

Danny's friends assisted the pirate to keep a vow, and how as a reward for merit the pirate's dogs saw a holy vision. — The pirate finally trusts Danny...

contradict his promise, as he would continually have to switch sides to keep his vow, ultimately leaving him as the last man standing. Distressed by the realization...

Gandhi sums up this vow as : I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use and keep it, I thieve it...

Pope insists that Gismonda must keep her vow and marry Almerio, or else she must be the spouse of Christ, that is, a nun. Almerio's triumphal approach...

and are listed under the 'VOW' and 'VOW3' stock ticker symbols. First listed in August 1961, the shares were issued at a price of DM 350 per DM 100 share...

The Seventh-day Adventist baptismal vow is a list of 13 belief statements which a person joining the Seventh-day Adventist Church is given and accepts...

according to their state of life. In some contexts, for example when making a vow of chastity, chastity means celibacy. The words chaste and chastity stem...

Later, after nine more sons had been born to him, he told them he must keep the vow. The divination arrows fell upon his favourite son Abdullah. The Quraysh...

Lizzie has slipped into a deep coma and there is nothing to do but wait to see if she comes out of it. Determined to keep his vow to love Lizzie in sickness...

The Day of the Vow (Afrikaans: Geloftedag) is a religious public holiday in South Africa. It is an important day for Afrikaners, originating from the Battle...

The Stronger Vow is a 1919 American silent melodrama film directed by Reginald Barker and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn. It is not known whether the film...

keep his vow. When Ishmael was grown, someone appeared to Abraham in a dream and said to him: "Keep your vow which you made! God bestowed upon you a boy...

'Uqba, leader of the Kuffa, sent him one hundred camels to enable him to keep his vow. In an elegy composed for Nu'mh Mundhii, Labid wrote: Every thing, but...

themselves. In many Christian denominations, the taking of baptismal vows incorporates a person into church membership. According to the Roman Ritual of the...

"His Last Vow" is the third and final episode of the third series of the BBC Television series Sherlock, which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock...