votaress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of votaress
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This is the spot—so men have told— Where Lord Mahendra215 dwelt of old, This is the blessed region where His votaress mother claimed his care.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Upon one occasion it chanced that he made a visit in disguise to Whalley Abbey, and, passing the little hermitage near the church, beheld the votaress who tenanted it.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
The princes reached the holy ground Where noble trees stood thick around, And joying in the lovely view Near to the aged votaress drew.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
The wretched votaress how sustain, Who mourns her child in ceaseless pain?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Thaisa, thinking Pericles dead, becomes a votaress at Diana's temple.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
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