take vows
verbDefinitions
To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of…
To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks.
- 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.
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