"take vows" meaning in English

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          "name": "Monasticism",
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          "ref": "1903, Harold MacGrath, chapter 34, in The Grey Cloak",
          "text": "And this was the hour Brother Jacques had planned and waited for! For this moment he had donned the robes, isolated himself, taken vows, suffered physical tortures!",
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Willa Cather, Scandal",
          "text": "\"Even painters ... try to make all women look like some wife or mistress. You are all the same; you never see our real faces. ... I'd rather take vows and veil my face for ever from such abominable eyes.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2001 December 30, Michelle O'Donnell, “The Life Serene”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-26",
          "text": "A cloister is the part of the monastery that only those who have taken vows may enter.",
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        "To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks."
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        "(Christianity) To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks."
      ],
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        "Christianity"
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    {
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      "form": "took vows",
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    {
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        "(Christianity) To become an officially inducted member of a religious order, such as an order of priests, nuns, or monks."
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