votarist

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

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

The votarist is one who has made a vow.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

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

For he, great votarist, intent On strictest rule his stern life spent.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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