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  • noun Plural form of vocation.

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Examples

  • I asked Sister Sharon for statistics about the number of vocations worldwide, and she produced a chart showing changes in vocations from 1978 to 1998.

    Women of God 2002

  • I asked Sister Sharon for statistics about the number of vocations worldwide, and she produced a chart showing changes in vocations from 1978 to 1998.

    Women of God 2002

  • Mr. Aldred regards Port Perry as his hometown, and one of his chief vocations is that of a farmer.

    The Future of Canadian Television 1961

  • At Covenant often there was talk of a “Big C” Calling to Christ, and a “Little c” calling to your vocation, but doesn’t God give us gifts and talents, interests and abilities that persuade us to certain vocations, and could not a “calling” change at a different point in life?

    Love Theory – Grasping for the Wind 2006

  • In his professional life my dad had been a bartender, cook, and small restaurant owner (in my dad's world people didn't have "vocations", they had "professions").

    George Mitrovich: A Father's Day Remembrance 2009

  • People from the left congregate in fields such as the media and education because those "vocations" require them to produce NOTHING but yet allow them to opine ad nauseam of how they believe the real world (where they don't live) should be.

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2009

  • I was raised Roman Catholic, and I remember well the annual appeals from visiting priests for "vocations" on "Vocation Sunday."

    Igneous Quill 2009

  • "The second reason is that it I am glad be in the midst of a lively Church such as that in Malta, which even today is rich in vocations, which is full of faith and responds to the challenges of our time.

    Spero News author unknown 2010

  • But they gave up their vocations, and so who was left?

    Stupak and the bishops, the bishops and me 2009

  • But they gave up their vocations, and so who was left?

    Lance Mannion: 2009

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