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a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
the cultured votary of science -
one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
monasteries of votaries -
a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult
a votary of Aphrodite
How To Use votary In A Sentence
- The lady, too, is a votary of the muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct, and often elegant, are much beyond the common run of the _lady poetesses_ of the day. The Letters of Robert Burns
- Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood. The Essays
- In other words, it is about genealogy of ideas, rather than suggesting that so and so was a Hindutva votary or any such nonsense. There are aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thought that forms the genealogy and patrimony of political Hindutva
- Babichev, who personifies the purblind utopianism of the Communist regime, cuts a truly grotesque figure as the votary of social planning, epitomized in his quest for the perfect mass-produced sausage.
- the cultured votary of science
- François Gautier is a known hindutva votary who keeps on invoking the name of Sri Aurobindo. Spurious acolytes
- The wall-text description of the latter as ‘display figures’ is questionable, since they are primarily tutelary deities to which devotees made regular votary offerings.
- He was a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others. Arrested Development
- The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary. The Volokh Conspiracy » On Patriotism
- a votary of Aphrodite