noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
true
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Although he wrote chamber and orchestral music, songs were his true vocation .
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Her fate has taken her on a different journey, a route where the monarchy is secondary to her true vocation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was quite young when he decided he had a religious vocation .
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Nursing is hard work and often low paid, but for many people it is a vocation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in the lives of many artists, illness revealed his vocation .
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At times the yoke of his vocation was almost unbearable, although there is no indication that he ever regretted assuming it.
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Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side.
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His real vocation was the river.
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This was not the inspiration for her vocation .