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from The Century Dictionary.
- In a votive manner; by vow.
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He had felt for an instant as if he were speaking to some miraculously humanised idol, all sacred, all jewelled, all votively hung about, but made mysterious, in the recess of its shrine, by the very thickness of the accumulated lustre.
The Finer Grain Henry James 1879
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