“Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry,” Dungy has written.
It's a vocation that could only thrive on Capitol Hill: professional line-stander.
“The golden age of Parisian smiles nurtured, and was nurtured by, the rise of dentistry as a vocation,” writes Jones.
Telling people only what they want to hear has become a vocation.
“When women enter any vocation, that vocation changes in some way,” Erickson says.
Often had he professed his readiness to prove his vocation by fire.
To discover and declare truth as it is, and facts as they are, is the vocation of the scholar.
It was simply a change of vocation, and there still remained a market for grain, hay, straw and other produce of the farm.
But this woman of whom I have told you knew no vocation and took no vow.
We shall, in this chapter, discuss the problem of vocation for women under present conditions.
early 15c., "spiritual calling," from Latin vocationem (nominative vocatio), literally "a calling," from vocatus "called," past participle of vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)). Sense of "one's occupation or profession" is first attested 1550s.