the pledge

the pledge
   an undertaking never to drink intoxicants
   Signed, taken, kept, or broken by those who have, usually as a member of a church, forsworn the 'demon drink':
    He felt the Band of Hope had been worthwhile when some of the old boys came to see him during a holiday in the village. It warmed his heart to be told 'I've kept the pledge'. (Tyrrell, 1973)

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