Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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.
Inherited from Middle English vowe, voue, that from Old French vut, in turn from Latin vōtum (“a promise, dedication, vow”), from vovēre (“to promise, vow”). Not related to avow. Doublet of vote.
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