Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female voter.
- noun Same as
votaress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A votaress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female thatvotes ; a femalevoter . - noun A female
votary .
Etymologies
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voter + -ess
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Syncopic alteration of votaress by analogy with enchantress et al.
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Examples
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Signora Loreta inquiring the reason of his despair, he told her the whole story; and being a very pious woman and an ardent votress of the Holy Mother of God, she shared his chagrin to the full.
The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884
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Every American voter or votress is allowed to keep his or her little intellectual wind-mill, coffee-mill, pepper-mill, loom, steam-engine, hand-organ, or whatever moral manufacturing or grinding apparatus he or she likes.
The Grindwell Governing Machine Anonymous 1858
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a little from the meridian; her oblique rays did not penetrate the depths where Jane stood, but fell in their full brightness on the face of her votress above.
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