单词 | to make a vow |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (hold, pay, keep, †yield or break) a vow b. In phrases, as to make (hold, pay, keep, †yield or break) a vow. ΘΚΠ 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 (a) (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.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. < as lemmas |
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