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Stanislavski saw his students as votaries in an ascetic cult.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2022

From the Revolution forward, as Cheney outlines, its votaries promoted the intellectual depth and known virtues of those with recognizable surnames and long family legacies.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2020

“Blush ye pretended votaries for freedom! ye trifling patriots!” cried John Allen, a Baptist minister from Massachusetts.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

But mainly because it' s a cathedral experience: a hundred or a thousand votaries in a dark room whose only light illuminates those big, gorgeous stars and their dreadful, beautiful problems.

From Time • Jul. 16, 2010

I mean the much smaller body of votaries who go, or feel inclined to go, much farther, and accept Comte's religious teaching as a law of life.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

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