votaries
- plural of votary.
Example Sentences
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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
