Meaning of votaress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female votary.

Equivalents

Examples

“a votaress of the order⟳”

“His seeming rescue⟳ by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own⟳, and the priestess had come⟳ from the inner temple to save⟳ him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save⟳ him as a human offering to their flaming deity.”

“Madness grew in the eyes of the capering votaress and was reflected in the eyes of the watchers.”

“Aminta, of course, falls in love⟳ with Sylvia at first sight, and she, chaste votaress of Diana, is outraged.”

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