votaress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of votaress
Example Sentences
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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
Earl of Leicester receiving Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth "And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation fancy free."
From Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess by Anna Benneson McMahan
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 The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
Thither his the votaress eunuchs with an emulous alacrity.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
Pure votaress she shone with light Of fervent zeal and holy rite.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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