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vow-breaker
[breaker n.]
One who breaks his or her vow.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 611/2 Faithful aduoutrers, faithful vowe breakers, faithfull theues. 1565Harding Confut. i. v. 15 To reuele the truth of his gospell by Apostates, vowebreakers, churchrobbers, and such other. 1681Dryden Span. Friar ii. ii, Love, you know, Father, is a great Vow-maker; but he's a greater Vow-breaker. 1844Mrs. Browning That Day iii, I stand by the river—I think of the vow—Oh, calm as the place is, vow-breaker, be thou!
So vow-breaking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1533More Apol. vi. Wks. 858/1 The vndouted faith of the whole catholike churche full fyftene hundred yeare together agaynste these vowebreakynge brethren. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 97 A companie of base Rebels and vow-breaking Friers. 1624Bedell Lett. x. 124 As to his Vow-breaking lastly, if that Vow were foolishly made.., it was iustly broken. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 299 Vow-breaking, though a grievous sin, is pardonable on unfeigned repentance. |