English-German translations for vow

• Eid der
• geloben
• Gelöbnis das
• Gelübde das
  Diesbezüglich, ihres idealen Pfades der Heiligkeit, schlage ich vor, dass Sie ein anderes Gelübde ablegen: Ein Handlungsgelübde. On this, your ideal path of holiness, I suggest you take a different vow: a vow of action.
  Doch vielleicht sollte ich dies vorerst respektvoll den Erfahreneren überlassen, obwohl ich verspreche, zu diesem Thema kein omertà-Gelübde abzulegen. But perhaps I should leave that for the time being to my elders and betters, although I promise not to take a vow of omertà on the subject.
• schwören
• Schwur der
• versprechen
  Dann würde man die Worte des Dichters Aischylos zitieren, der Kassandra sagen läßt: "Du gibst feierliche Versprechen, aber die anderen bereiten sich auf das Töten vor" . We would therefore have to say like Cassandra, in the poet Aeschylus' words: ' whilst you make vows, they prepare to kill' .

Definition of vow

• A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order
• A declaration or assertion
• A votive offering
• To make a vow; to promise
• To make a vow regarding (something
• To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation

Examples

• The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence
• The wronged woman vowed revenge.
• The rebels vowed to continue their fight.

Related words

• vowel
• vowels
• disavow
• avow
• semivowel
• avowed
• avowal
• disavowal
• avowedly