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单词 to make a vow
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to make (hold, pay, keep, †yield or break) a vow
b. In phrases, as to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vow.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > observance or carrying out a promise, law, etc. > observe or carry out a promise, law, etc. [verb (transitive)] > specifically a promise
yieldc825
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
redeem1795
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > promise, vow, or pledge [verb (intransitive)]
queatheOE
sweara900
fangc1175
behightc1275
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
vowa1325
avowc1400
to plight (one's) faithc1410
promitc1422
promise1447
creance1477
to take in vow1526
votec1540
depose1610
vum1785
to nail down1859
pledge1928
the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > observe, adhere, or keep a promise [verb (intransitive)]
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
beholda1400
to hold touch (also the touches)c1400
faithc1410
withholda1450
to keep touch1541
adherec1550
as good as one's word (also promise)c1560
inhere1563
watch1608
maximize1875
the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > fail to observe [verb (intransitive)]
to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290
to break dayc1300
faithc1410
swerve1527
to break touch1594
jeofail1599
recant1599
recede1648
discede1650
renege1651
shab1699
shaffle1781
weasel1956
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c1290 St. Fides 51 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 84 For ich habbe to him mi vou i-maked.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28286 Ic ha made vous oft vn-right and halden þam efter my might.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2795 Ȝyf þou madest awhere any vowe To wurschyp God for þy prowe.
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2942 Þan has þat man grete drede in hert; He mas þan vowes, and cryes on Crist.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 81 Kyng Oswy made a vow þat ȝif he hadde þe victorie in þat bataille he wolde offre his douȝter Elfleda to God of hevene.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1925 To god and you a voye I make, I shal youre seruice neuer forsake.
1473 J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 8 He made a woue that the Lorde Willowby schuld lese his hede.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 619/2 I make a vowe to God and to Our Ladye that I shall never slepe one night where I slepe an other, tyll I have sene hym.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Brennus ix I made a vowe to kill the man that causde me flye.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 70 He..Makes vow before his vncle, neuer more To giue the assay of Armes against your Maiestie.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 190 So may the Gods..accord the Vows you make, And give you Troys Imperial Town to take.
1718 [see ].
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. i. 28 He proceeded to recount the vow which was made..to Our Lady of Einsiedlen.
1867 W. Fleming Moral Philos. ii. ii. ii. 296 We may make a Vow, however, to our fellow-creatures, or even to ourselves.
(b)a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxv. 8 My wowis i sall ȝelde till lord in sight of all his folke.a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxii. 27 Thou shalt preȝen hym..and thi vouwis thou shalt ȝelde.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 24907 Do vou elis and hald þi vow It sal te turn til mikel pru. 1526 [see sense 1c]. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxii. 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer vnto him,..and thou shalt rendre thy vowes.?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 248 Nor would [these men] pay Their own vows to thee.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xiv. 69 Being a thing unjust to pay such Vow.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 235 They feign'd it made For their Return, and this the Vow they paid.1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 381 She firmly intended to keep the vow she had made.1819 W. Wordsworth Misc. Sonn. i. xi. 5 How Shall Fancy pay to thee a grateful vow?1859 Ld. Tennyson Pelleas & Ettarre 549 Have any of our Round Table held their vows?1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iii. i. 81 He did not mean to keep his vow.(c)1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 68 Himself mihte a-soylen hem alle Of Falsnesse and Fastinge and of vouwes I-broken.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10674 Þe biscop..Durst noght hir do hir vou to breke.c1450 Mirk's Festial 9 I haue avowet chastite. And..for I wold not breke my vow, pryuely yn a nyght, I stale forþe yn pore wede.1483 Cath. Angl. 404/1 To breke Vowe, deuotare, deuouere.1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. vii. sig. avv Onely I will shewe..howe terrible a thynge it was amonge them to breke their othes or vowes [printed a vowes].1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. C4v To breake a lawfull and religious vowe . View more context for this quotationa1641 H. Spelman Tithes too Hot to be Touched (1646) 135 So doubtlesse have we just cause to fear the dint of this curse in breaking this vow.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 78 That we may learn By what crime we have thus incensed Apollo, What broken vow..He charges on us.1889 Ld. Tennyson Ring 401 No pliable idiot I to break my vow.
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