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PLEDGES |
Vows |
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OATHS |
Vows |
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BAPTISMAL |
Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows. |
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OBEDIENCE |
One of the three monastic vows. |
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PROFESSOR |
Take vows to become nun or academic |
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DERAINMENT |
The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. |
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RELIGIOUS |
Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. |
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RELIGIEUX |
A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk. |
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RENUNCIATORY |
Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a
renunciation; as, renunciatory vows. |
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NOVITIATE |
Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before
taking the vows. |
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CELIBATE |
One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by
vows not to marry. |
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NUN |
A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent,
under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. |
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CELIBACY |
The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a
bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. |
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PERFIDIOUS |
Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false
to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious
friend. |
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FAITHLESS |
Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious;
trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or
a wife. |
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FALSE |
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance,
vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover,
or subject; false to promises. |
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NUNNERY |
A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in
which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and
Convent. |
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UNFAITHFUL |
Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows,
allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous;
perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. |
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VASSAL |
The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of
superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a
feudal tenant. |
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REGULAR |
A member of any religious order or community who has taken
the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly
recognized by the church. |
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SECULAR |
Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not
confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious
community; as, a secular priest. |
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BEGUINE |
A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable
associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose
members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows. |
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PENITENTIARY |
An office of the papal court which examines cases of
conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers
decisions, dispensations,... |
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MONK |
...erns of the
world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of
men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of c... |
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DISPENSATION |
... man has incurred
of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). ... |