votary
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“He was a colossus, a true votary of ahimsa,” Lal wrote, “and a very compassionate man.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
But Asha Devi, a huge votary of capital punishment, insists that it was justified.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
Shakespeare’s private idolatry, his not so secret votary worship, is the Goddess of Love.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2016
In one chapter he takes his bearings from the watercolourist Eric Ravilious, "a votary of whiteness and remoteness, and a visionary of the everyday".
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2012
As the fan blew upon it, the flame of the votary candle swayed and flickered.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
The lake was the centre of sacred festivities and it was customary for votaries to swim out and decorate an altar standing in the middle of the water.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing votary
The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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The Testaments
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Democracy in America, Volume II
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