revow

revow

English

Etymology

re- +‎ vow

Verb

revow (third-person singular simple present revows, present participle revowing, simple past and past participle revowed)

1. To vow again or anew.
   • 1885, Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review, page 16:

     [H]e himself was — all but — revowed to a monastic life.

   • 1938, Loyal Davis, Surgeon extraordinary: the life of J.B. Murphy:

     Not until he and Nettie had almost wept with joy together, not until they had decided that the boy should become a physician, not until they had decided his name should be Harold, not until he had revowed his love ...

   • 1949, Charles O'Neill, Morning Time: A Novel:

     Off in his Green Mountains, Ethan Allen revowed his willingness to defy and make war on the universal earth.

Anagrams

• vower