vow 2

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a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.

  • 1.In the Christian tradition, such public vows are made by the religious life – cenobitic and eremitic – of the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox Churches, whereby they confirm their public profession of the Evangelical Counsels or Benedictine equivalent.
  • a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.

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