Antonyms for votary

Grammar : Noun

Spell : voh-tuh-ree

Phonetic Transcription : ˈvoʊ tə ri

Definition of votary

Origin : 1540s, "one consecrated by a vow," from Latin votum (see vow). Originally "a monk or nun," general sense of "ardent devotee of some aim or pursuit" is from 1591 (in Shakespeare, originally in reference to love).

noun believer

Example sentences :

Not lightly must that votary be proved, who fain would free a people.
Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli

Never was a votary endowed with a faith at once so lively and so capricious.
Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli

It pre-supposes in its votary a mind essentially mercantile.
Extract from : « The Young Duke » by Benjamin Disraeli

Thus it was that she kept her oaths; thus she repaid her votary.
Extract from : « The World's Desire » by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang

“I, as well as you Americans, can be the votary of business,” answered Ram Juna.
Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter

That votary of the muse arrived punctually at twelve o'clock.
Extract from : « Kenelm Chillingly, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The votary of the Muses was dead; and a few minutes after Orpheus, too, fell senseless.
Extract from : « Serapis, Complete » by Georg Ebers

The projector of plots is but a miserable gambler and votary of chances.
Extract from : « Evan Harrington, Complete » by George Meredith

These are all doctors, and it is their business to instruct the votary in the object of his mission.
Extract from : « La Ronge Journal, 1823 » by George Nelson

"As is the God, so is the votary," is a maxim worth considering.
Extract from : « Indian Home Rule » by M. K. Gandhi

Synonyms for votary

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