vow-breaker
[breaker n.]
One who breaks his or her vow.
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 611/2 Faithful aduoutrers, faithful vowe breakers, faithfull theues. 1565 Harding Confut. i. v. 15 To reuele the truth of his gospell by Apostates, vowebreakers, churchrobbers, and such other. 1681 Dryden Span. Friar ii. ii, Love, you know, Father, is a great Vow-maker; but he's a greater Vow-breaker. 1844 Mrs. Browning That Day iii, I stand by the river—I think of the vow—Oh, calm as the place is, vow-breaker, be thou! |
So vow-breaking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1533 More Apol. vi. Wks. 858/1 The vndouted faith of the whole catholike churche full fyftene hundred yeare together agaynste these vowebreakynge brethren. 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 97 A companie of base Rebels and vow-breaking Friers. 1624 Bedell Lett. x. 124 As to his Vow-breaking lastly, if that Vow were foolishly made.., it was iustly broken. 1646 Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 299 Vow-breaking, though a grievous sin, is pardonable on unfeigned repentance. |