单词 | vow-breaker |
释义 | vow-breakern. One who breaks his or her vow. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [noun] > one who infractor1524 vow-breaker1532 infringer1541 swerver1598 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 611/2 Faithful aduoutrers, faithful vowe breakers, faithfull theues. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. i. v. f. 15 To reuele the truth of his gospell by Apostates, vowebreakers, churchrobbers, and such other. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar ii. ii. 26 Love, you know, Father, is a great Vow-maker; but he's a greater Vow-breaker. 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 203 I stand by the river—I think of the vow—Oh, calm as the place is vow-breaker, be thou! Derivatives vow-breaking n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > [adjective] > breaking vow vow-breaking1533 the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [adjective] unordaina1425 vow-breaking1533 vowless1620 violatory1687 violative1745 repudiatory1846 lapsed1959 the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [noun] > particular types of refusal1482 vow-breaking1533 stretch1541 breach of promise1613 vow-break1646 vow-breach1647 breach of privilege1650 fedifraction1650 breach1841 repudiation1842 stand-up1921 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [adjective] > breaking pledge or agreement vow-breaking1533 fedifragous1600 1533 T. More Apol. vi, in Wks. 858/1 The vndouted faith of the whole catholike churche full fyftene hundred yeare together agaynste these vowebreakynge brethren. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 97 A companie of base Rebels and vow-breaking Friers. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. x. 124 As to his Vow-breaking lastly, if that Vow were foolishly made.., it was iustly broken. 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience viii. 55 Vow-breaking, though a grievous sinne, is pardonable on unfaigned repentance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1532 |
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