The religious vow, being a public vow, is binding in Church law.

In 1996, Franzen made a reckless public vow.

The vow taken at profession as a member of any religious institute is a public vow, but in recent centuries can be either solemn or simple.

Nikephoros III Botaneiates was forced into a public vow that he would grant protection to the family.

Some, however, made a public vow, known as the Coonen Cross Oath, to never succumb to the leadership of the Western Church.

Hardly the public vow of obedience and commitment that free agents wanted to hear.

Maria De Mattias made a public vow of chastity, receiving a gold heart imprinted with three drops of blood.

One of the parties has made a public perpetual vow of chastity.

He matches that adage with a public vow of his own, made in a recent speech: "I would leave this world as we came into it, with nothing.

Rather, they were taking a public vow to remain in dissent from the majority's open-ended view of the sovereign powers of the individual states.