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Dictionary definition: vow
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- The Oxford American College Dictionary
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• n. a solemn promise.
∎
(
vows
)a set of such promises committing one to a prescribed role, calling, or course of action, typically to marriage or a monastic career.
• v.
1.
[
reporting verb
]solemnly promise to do a specified thing: [with
clause
]
he vowed that his government ...
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Article: A solemn promise.
The Daily Mail (London, England);
August 2, 2007 ;
326 words
...JOHN Bolton, former American ambassador to the UN, has latched on to atruth that seems to have escaped our Government: if we sign up to the revivedEU constitution, Britain will cease to be an independent nation. As far as the outside world is concerned, Europe will be a single superstateand our
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