votaress

How to use votaress in a sentence

• The mother-superior took the votaress at her word, and left her then and there.

  The Lost Lady of Lone | E.D.E.N. Southworth

• "Surely, daughter," said the abbess, gently as with her own hand she opened the door and led her votaress into the room.

  The Lost Lady of Lone | E.D.E.N. Southworth

• Such talk, both priest and votaress told her, was not meet for dutiful daughter or betrothed maiden.

  The Caged Lion | Charlotte M. Yonge

• Thaisa, thinking Pericles dead, becomes a votaress at Diana's temple.

  William Shakespeare | John Masefield

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

  Studies in Medival Life and Literature | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin