Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The breaking of a vow.
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Examples
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His object being gained, the wicked man then commits a double vow-breach, neither marrying the sister nor sparing the brother.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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His object being gained, the wicked man then commits a double vow-breach, neither marrying the sister nor sparing the brother.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Why? oh, why was I made the miserable object of thy fatal vow-breach?
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664
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I mean so poorly jealous as to believe me capable of falsehood, of vow-breach, and what is worse, of loving any thing but the adorable _Philander_?
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664
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Have a care, my charming fair, how you play with vows; and however you are forced, for that religious end of saving your honour, to deceive the poor old lover, whom, by heaven I pity; yet rather let me die than know you can be guilty of vow-breach, though made in jest.
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664
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