votarist

Example Sentences

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We paused in such awe as would seize on a pale votarist, visiting some holy shrine at midnight; if she beheld animated and smiling, the image which she worshipped.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phœbus' wain.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

In the present case, the votarist is a palmer, i.e. a pilgrim who carried a palm-branch in token of his having been to Palestine.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

Again, idle votarist would easily become idol votarist— `I am no idle votarist.'—Timon, iv.

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

They left me then when the grey-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer’s weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phœbus’ wain.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William