monastic vows
Religious life commitments
Monastic vows are the solemn promises made by a person entering a religious order, typically including poverty, chastity, and obedience.
These vows bind the individual to the community and its rule of life.
She took her monastic vows at twenty-three and never looked back.
The phrase extends figuratively to any serious commitment to an austere or disciplined way of living.
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
prayer · poverty · holy orders · religious life · fasting · stability · contemplation · novitiate · humility · silence · meditation · abbot · simplicity · cloistered life · cloister · scripture study · monastery · abbey
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- asceticismabstinence, celibacy, ascetic, austerities, chastity
- Buddhist monasteriesabbots, lamas, monastery life, dormitories, dormitory
- initiation ritesrite of passage, initiation rite, walkabout, tribal initiation, puberty rites
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
monastic vowsmarriage vows
Pledges exchanged during ceremonies
wedding vows · gentleman's agreement · handshake deal · military oath · civic duty
monastic vowssecular life
Non-spiritual way of living
materialism · hedonism · libertinism · worldliness · domestic life
monastic vowswealth accumulation
Process of gathering assets
sexual freedom · self-determination · autonomy · license · acquisitiveness