Votary

The first, written while he was serving in the Forbes campaign, on September 12, 1758, is the primary source of this story: Tis true, I profess myself a Votary to Love… I feel the force of her amiable beauties in the recollection of a thousand tender passages that I wish to obliterate, till I am bid to revive them – but experience alas!

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

But Valerius seem'd to abominate any Thing of Force, and told his Mother, he was no less a Votary to my Virtue than my Beauty, both to him were sacred.

Exilius 2008

He dubbed the smaller snake handler a "Priestess or Votary."

Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses 2001

-- Votary or priestess of the goddess to whom snakes were sacred.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Votary or Priestess of the Goddess to whom Snakes were Sacred 188

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

The personnel of this distinguished Votary of the Muse, was happily fitted to his art.

The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853

O ye everlasting, ever-shining Luminaries, be always propitious to your Votary, said

Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

Amidst the Multiplicity of her Adorers, she thought herself undone to miss the Addresses of a single Votary, and could not bear to lose the Conversation of a Man whose Eyes and Tongue were perfectly skill'd in the Art of Flattery and Dissimulation, and had given her so many Informations of her Power.

Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel 1725

There are also many Words in RY, that admit of the like Elisions; as Vot'ry, Vict'ry, or Votary, V¡ctory, &c.

The Art of English Poetry 1702

Confessors for Pardon and Consolation, our beautiful Votary took the

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695