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votarist|ˈvəʊtərɪst|
[Cf. next and -ist.]
One bound by a vow; a devotee, a votary.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. v. 5 Wishing a more strict restraint Vpon the Sisterhood, the Votarists of Saint Clare. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. i. (1677) 12 Divers Virgins..did in like sort apply themselves to the solitary life; not as the Votarists did that in after-times rose up, for they did not bind themselves by vows. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 44, I believe the Lady..is of too noble..a temper to welcome her Votarist with an affront. 1782E. Carter Lett. (1809) IV. 322 One of the nuns was kneeling very near the grate... If one of our fine drest ladies had been placed near this charming votarist [etc.]. 1782R. Cumberland Anecd. Emin. Painters I. 60 In the fore ground of the groupe of Bachanals there is a young female votarist asleep. 1813Shelley Q. Mab Notes v. 189 The language of the votarist is this. 1844R. P. Ward Chatsworth II. 188 Like a spotless heifer..surrounded by the proud priests and senseless votarists in whose sight..it is presently to die. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. vii. 1506 So kneels a votarist, Weeds some poor waste traditionary plot Where shrine once was.
transf.1806H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow II. 187 He is but a lukewarm votarist in the cause of truth and virtue, if he is to be thus ridiculed out of his integrity. 1831W. Godwin Thoughts Man 202 There is still further advantage that belongs to the poet and the votarist of polite literature, which ought to be mentioned. |