votaress

American  

[voh-ter-is] / ˈvoʊ tər ɪs /

noun

Now Rare.

1. a woman who is a votary.

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Gender

See -ess.

Etymology

Origin of votaress

First recorded in 1580–90; votar(y) + -ess

Example Sentences

Dame Fortune! all your acts and deeds confess That you are foul oppression's votaress; You cherish bad men, and annoy the good; Is this from dotage, or sheer foolishness?

From Project Gutenberg

All wait for the votaress, but she is detained by a crowd of friends.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus he commanded; and incontinent The dwarf departed like a red ray sent From rich down-flowering clouds of suffused light Winged o'er long, purple glooms; and with the night, Whose votaress cypress stoled the dying strife Softly of day, and for whose perished life Gave heaven her golden stars, in dreamy thought Wends Accolon to hazy Chariot.

From Project Gutenberg

My thoughts have borne me far away To Visions of a wiser day, Where, stealing through the wilderness, Night walks, a sad-eyed votaress, And prays with mystic words she hears Behind the thunder of the spheres, The starry utterance that's hers, With which she fills the Universe.

From Project Gutenberg

With zone of grass the votaress was bound, Which reddened the fair form it girdled round: Never before the lady's waist had felt The ceaseless torment of so rough a belt.

From Project Gutenberg