vow of poverty
Sworn material simplicity
A vow of poverty is a religious commitment to renounce personal ownership of property and live without material wealth.
Members of monastic orders take such vows, holding possessions communally rather than individually.
The phrase extends figuratively to anyone choosing an austere lifestyle: Becoming a public defender is practically taking a vow of poverty.
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- monastic lifeReligious community living
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- simplicityLack of complexity
communal living · Franciscans · St. Francis · humility · detachment · earthly possessions · worldly goods · renunciation · charity · celibacy · intentional community · convent · cloistered life · non-materialism · minimalism · simple living · religious vows · holy orders
- oathsoath taking, swearing in, oath ceremony, sworn oath, oath of honor
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, obedience
- Friarsfriar, friars, Franciscan, Franciscans, friary
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- sworn bondsblood oath, oath of fealty, loyalty oath, fealty, blood brothers
- Poor Clarescloister, enclosure, cloistered nun, abbess, prioress
vow of povertywealth accumulation
Process of gathering assets
materialism · acquisitiveness · greed · avarice · conspicuous consumption
vow of povertyself-indulgence
Excessive yielding to desires
hedonism · extravagance · profligacy · worldliness · decadence