take vows
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks.
Example Sentences
- "And this was the hour Brother Jacques had planned and waited for! For this moment he had donned the robes, isolated himself, taken vows, suffered physical tortures!"
- ""Even painters ... try to make all women look like some wife or mistress. You are all the same; you never see our real faces. ... I'd rather take vows and veil my face for ever from such abominable eyes.""
- "A cloister is the part of the monastery that only those who have taken vows may enter."
Inflected Forms
takes vows (present, singular)
taking vows (participle, present)
took vows (past)
taken vows (participle, past)