Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship or service.
- noun A devout adherent of a cult or religion; a committed worshiper.
- noun A person who is fervently devoted, as to a leader or ideal; a faithful follower.
- noun A person who is filled with enthusiasm, as for a pursuit or hobby; an enthusiast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consecrated by a vow or promise; also, consequent on a vow; devoted; votive.
- noun One who is devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, more generally, one who is devoted, given, or addicted to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
- noun One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person, such as a
monk ornun , who lives areligious life according tovows they have made - noun A
devotee of a particularreligion orcult - noun A
devout orzealous worshipper - noun Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an
enthusiast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
- noun one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
- noun a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Moily, who's credited with streamlining engineering admission process structure in Karnatata (where caste-based reservations for various OBC communities often posed a systemic problem, until Moily, as then chief minister, streamlined the process), has also been known as a votary of caste-based census.
Top Headlines 2009
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In future I shall become what is called a votary, and shall cut down my spirits to the narrowest limit. "
Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti Walter Paget 1867
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These are the consistent, patterned actions of a votary of approval-seeking and compelled conciliation.
Sharon O'Connell: Barack Obama, Where Have You Gone? Oh, There. Sharon O'Connell 2011
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Mr. Chakrabarty has been a strong votary of financial inclusion, urging banks for more push into rural and semi-urban areas.
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He was a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others.
Arrested Development 2008
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He was a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others.
Arrested Development 2008
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In other words, it is about genealogy of ideas, rather than suggesting that so and so was a Hindutva votary or any such nonsense.
There are aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thought that forms the genealogy and patrimony of political Hindutva Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.
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In other words, it is about genealogy of ideas, rather than suggesting that so and so was a Hindutva votary or any such nonsense.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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François Gautier is a known hindutva votary who keeps on invoking the name of Sri Aurobindo.
Spurious acolytes Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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