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noun Roman Catholic Church.

a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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Question 1 of 7

“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of simple vow

First recorded in 1900–05

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The reason pilots would choose to use guns over a bomb or a missile is simple.
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Still, I worry that a simple traffic stop could have tragic consequences.
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“It is the hardest to play,” one of the buglers says of this seemingly simple tune.
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It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.
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Let us look over these points again, and make the matter still clearer and more simple.
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If I selected lucid and simple extracts, they would give no idea of the intricacy and prolixity of Duns.
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