Definitions
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- n. A female votary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A woman who is a votary.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A female votary.
Etymologies
Examples
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LITTLE INDIAN/IUDEAN BOY (whose mother is a prayerful virgin or votaress) is the Jewish messiah who was stolen away to create the account of a pro-Roman Jesus in the Gospel stories.
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The former assured her that the Holy Virgin would frown on every attempt to withdraw a true votaress from the shrine of Saint Ursula; while the
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Lioness of Scotland, go forth and conquer! and if the prayers of a devoted votaress can avail thee, they will rise in many a land, and from many a distant shrine.
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And she too well hath kept her vow, that votaress.
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Thither his the votaress eunuchs with an emulous alacrity.
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Cybele's for aye, for all years, in her order a votaress.
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Madness grew in the eyes of the capering votaress and was reflected in the eyes of the watchers.
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A few quick strides took me across the glade; here had the dancers leaped and bounded until the ground should have been trampled bare, and here had the votaress wriggled her painful way to the Stone, streaming blood on the earth.
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I acted as if his studying for orals were a sacred act and I was the votaress in charge of sweeping up the chapel.
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He, aided by the goddess, and a votaress of her order whom the goddess deputes, avails himself of the noble prize's most susceptible side,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
whichbe commented on the word votaress
A female votary.
May 11, 2008