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Russian
обет молчания
Portuguese
voto de silêncio
Catalan
vot de silenci
Spanish
voto del silencio

Vow to maintain silence, usually for spirituality or protest.

обет молчания
Synonyms
Examples for "vow of silence"
Examples for "vow of silence"
1
Durst I address a person who was under a vow of silence?
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
2
Had I missed something about a vow of silence in the memo?
Stand by your hitman
3
Now what was to become of her, for her broken vow of silence?
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
4
I'm going into cloister... And I'm taking a vow of silence.
The new yorker
5
I have betrayed my vow of silence to the Invisible God!
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
1
I need scarcely observe, that from the rigid silence vowed and practised, the order of La Trappe includes no females in its over-zealous ordinances.
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