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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...
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  • Pratimokṣa (redirect from Pratimoksha Vow)
    obliged to take all five vows. The commentaries describe seven types of lay followers: Promising to keep just one vow. Promising to keep certain vows. Promising...
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  • 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...
    10 KB (1,146 words) - 13:07, 16 October 2024
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    The Bodhisattva vow is a vow (Sanskrit: praṇidhāna, lit. aspiration or resolution) taken by some Mahāyāna Buddhists to achieve full buddhahood for the...
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    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...
    12 KB (1,844 words) - 15:25, 10 October 2024
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    would contradict his promise, as he would continually have to switch sides to keep his vow, ultimately leaving him as the last man standing. Distressed...
    10 KB (1,353 words) - 21:24, 13 November 2024
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    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 to...
    23 KB (2,470 words) - 15:10, 6 November 2024
  • 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...
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    "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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    and earth, to make a vow to Him that, if He will protect us and give our enemy into our hand, we shall keep this day and date every year as a day of thanksgiving...
    20 KB (2,975 words) - 15:05, 26 October 2024
  • 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...
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  • Labid (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Al-Walid '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...
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    Chastity (redirect from Vow of chastity)
    or from any sexual activity, according to their state of life. In some contexts, for example when making a vow of chastity, chastity means celibacy. The...
    20 KB (2,395 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2024
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    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 by Hagar so that you may...
    55 KB (7,416 words) - 17:04, 6 November 2024
  • Moved, the three desperadoes keep their vow. They find a chest filled with baby things, condensed milk, an advice book, and a Bible. Pete offers Bob the...
    12 KB (1,370 words) - 23:14, 19 November 2024
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    Jephthah (redirect from Jephthah's vow)
    the Ammonites, made a vow to sacrifice whatever would come out of the door of his house first. When his daughter was the first to come out of the house...
    21 KB (2,664 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2024
  • act. This leads Peter to resign from his job and to try to be a kinder man. But when he is unsurprisingly unable to keep this vow, Trump rubs it in his...
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  • the Kaaba. 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...
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