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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