votarist
Example Sentences
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The votarist is one who has made a vow.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
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 John Bartlett
Again, idle votarist would easily become idol votarist— `I am no idle votarist.'—Timon, iv.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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 William Bell
They left me then when the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer’s weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phœbus’ wain.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
