Definitions for votary

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votary vo·ta·ry

Spelling: [voh-tuh-ree]

IPA: /ˈvoʊ tə ri/

Votary is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in votary (aortvy).

Definitions for votary

noun

1. a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
2. an adherent of a religion or cult; a worshiper of a particular deity or sacred personage.
3. a person who is devoted or addicted to some subject or pursuit:
4. a devoted follower or admirer.

adjective

1. consecrated by a vow.
2. of or relating to a vow.

Origin of votary

1540-50; Latin vōt(um) a vow + -ary

Examples for votary

Not lightly must that votary be proved, who fain would free a people.

These are all doctors, and it is their business to instruct the votary in the object of his mission.

It pre-supposes in its votary a mind essentially mercantile.

That votary of the muse arrived punctually at twelve o'clock.

“I, as well as you Americans, can be the votary of business,” answered Ram Juna.

The projector of plots is but a miserable gambler and votary of chances.

Thus it was that she kept her oaths; thus she repaid her votary.

"As is the God, so is the votary," is a maxim worth considering.

Never was a votary endowed with a faith at once so lively and so capricious.

The votary of the Muses was dead; and a few minutes after Orpheus, too, fell senseless.