vow of obedience
Promise to comply
A vow of obedience is a solemn promise to submit to the authority of a religious superior or institution, typically taken by members of Catholic religious orders alongside vows of poverty and chastity.
The vow binds a person to follow directives from superiors as an expression of spiritual discipline and surrender of personal will: She took her vow of obedience when she entered the convent.
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- solemn vowGrave, binding promise
- religious orderVowed spiritual community
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
subordination · monasticism · monastic life · conformity · leadership · consecration · duty · selflessness · discipline · asceticism · humility · novitiate · take the veil · covenant · sacrifice · submission · integrity · command
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, poverty
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
- Poor Clarescloister, enclosure, cloistered nun, abbess, prioress
- religious vowsfinal vows, chastity, monastic vows, perpetual vows, celibacy
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
vow of obedienceindependence
Freedom from external control
autonomy · self-determination · free will · self-governance · personal sovereignty
vow of obediencesecularization
Religion losing social significance
vow of obediencerebellion
Defiance of established power
defiance · disobedience · insubordination · mutiny · revolt
vowed, vowing, avowal, avowed, avowedly, obedience, obedient, obediently, obeyed