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- noun Plural form of
vower .
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Examples
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She fell into a softened remembrance of meadows, in old time, gleaming with buttercups, like so many inverted firmaments of golden stars; and how she had made chains of dandelion – stalks for youthful vowers of eternal constancy, dressed chiefly in nankeen; and how soon those fetters had withered and broken.
Dombey and Son 2007
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God's covenant, his people -- a holy priesthood, to act as vowers or
The Ordinance of Covenanting John Cunningham 1856
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She fell into a softened remembrance of meadows, in old time, gleaming with buttercups, like so many inverted firmaments of golden stars; and how she had made chains of dandelion-stalks for youthful vowers of eternal constancy, dressed chiefly in nankeen; and how soon those fetters had withered and broken.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841
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