to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
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take vows in American English
to make the vows required for formal entrance into a religious order or community
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Examples of 'take vows' in a sentence
take vows
It is not clear whether he went there intending to take vows.
Clive Barker SACRAMENT (2001)
"I'd be happy to take vows and live under a promise of silence, if I got permission for solitude.
Gregory Maguire CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER (2001)