votress

American  

[voh-tris] / ˈvoʊ trɪs /

noun

Archaic.

1. a votaress.

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Example Sentences

Then lead, calm votress, where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath, or some time hallowed pile,     Or upland fallows gray     Reflect its last cool gleam.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

His mother was a votress of my order, And in the spiced Indian air by night Full often she hath gossipt by my side; And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands.

From A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Every American voter or votress is allowed to keep his or her little intellectual wind-mill, coffee-mill, pepper-mill, loom, steam-engine, hand-organ, or whatever moral manufacturing or grinding apparatus he or she likes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various

These lines are substituted for the better lines— "Then lead, dear votress, where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath, or some time-hallow'd pile, Or upland fallows grey Reflect the last cool gleam."

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

With her attenuated distinction, her hectic ardour, her brilliant and pursuing eye, she had the air of some doomed and dedicated votress of the pure intellect, haggard, disturbing and disturbed.

From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May