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
- 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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