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英:[ˈvəʊtəri]

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votary是什么意思

n.

信徒

追随者

(天主教)修士

修女

votary自然拼读

vo·ta·ry

vo t ri

votary变形

复数:votaries

votary扩展

votarist (n.)

votary英英释义

Noun

1. one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service;

"monasteries of votaries"

2. a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult;

"a votary of Aphrodite"

3. a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity;

"the cultured votary of science"

votary词源中文解释

1540年代,“一位受誓约祝圣的人”,源自拉丁语 votum “向神许下的承诺; 所许之物”(参见 vow(名词))+ -ary。最初指“修道士或修女”,“热心追求某种目标或追求的人”的一般意义始于1591年(在莎士比亚的作品中,最初是指爱情)。相关词汇: Votaress。

votary词源英文解释

Latin votum vow

The first known use of votary was in 1543

votary儿童词典英英释义

vouchverb

to give a guarantee

vouch for the truth of a story

to supply supporting evidence or testimony

votiveadjective

consisting of or expressing a vow, wish, or desire

a votive prayer

vote1 of 2noun

a formal expression of opinion or will (as by ballot in an election)

the result reached by voting

ballot entry 1 sense 1

the general opinion expressed by voters

the vote is to lower taxes

the right to cast a vote : suffrage

gave women the vote

the act or process of voting

bring the issue to a vote

a method of voting

a voice vote

voter

a group of voters with a common interest or quality

the farm vote

vote2 of 2verb

to express one's wish or choice by a vote : cast a vote

to elect, decide, pass, defeat, grant, or make legal by a vote

to declare by general agreement

to put forth as a suggestion

I vote we all go home

vote1 of 2noun

a formal expression of opinion or will (as by ballot in an election)

the result reached by voting

ballot entry 1 sense 1

the general opinion expressed by voters

the vote is to lower taxes

the right to cast a vote : suffrage

gave women the vote

the act or process of voting

bring the issue to a vote

a method of voting

a voice vote

voter

a group of voters with a common interest or quality

the farm vote

vote2 of 2verb

to express one's wish or choice by a vote : cast a vote

to elect, decide, pass, defeat, grant, or make legal by a vote

to declare by general agreement

to put forth as a suggestion

I vote we all go home

voternoun

one that votes or has the legal right to vote

voternoun

one that votes or has the legal right to vote

vote1 of 2noun

a formal expression of opinion or will (as by ballot in an election)

the result reached by voting

ballot entry 1 sense 1

the general opinion expressed by voters

the vote is to lower taxes

the right to cast a vote : suffrage

gave women the vote

the act or process of voting

bring the issue to a vote

a method of voting

a voice vote

voter

a group of voters with a common interest or quality

the farm vote

vote2 of 2verb

to express one's wish or choice by a vote : cast a vote

to elect, decide, pass, defeat, grant, or make legal by a vote

to declare by general agreement

to put forth as a suggestion

I vote we all go home

votarynoun

a devoted followerespecially: a devout or eager worshipper

votary 例句

1 Akshay Babu, who had made the passion in English literature living to us, was himself a votary of the emotional life.

阿卡什先生,这位使我们逼真地感到英国文学强烈情感的人,他自己就是一个性情中人。

2 Anthropology is a recent science, and yet its votaries have produced numerous treatises.

3 Venus’ festivals were always scenes of graceful amusements; and her votaries wore wreaths of fresh, fragrant flowers, the emblem of all natural beauty.

4 Every religion that has succeeded has in some way supplied the wants of its votaries, and has to a certain extent harmonized with their hopes, their fears, their vices, and their virtues.

5 From the Revolution forward, as Cheney outlines, its votaries promoted the intellectual depth and known virtues of those with recognizable surnames and long family legacies.

6 The lake was the centre of sacred festivities and it was customary for votaries to swim out and decorate an altar standing in the middle of the water.

7 “Blush ye pretended votaries for freedom! ye trifling patriots!” cried John Allen, a Baptist minister from Massachusetts.

8 But Asha Devi, a huge votary of capital punishment, insists that it was justified.

9 Like its mountain competitor, it has its relic of Buddha enshrined in a richly-jeweled casket, which is made an object of especial veneration to the votaries of that god.

10 The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has long been a loud votary of progress.

11 First an unusual serenity prevails over the mind, and the soul of the votary is filled with a placid satisfaction.

12 It is only with very vigorous or very candid minds that the understanding exercises its just and boasted prerogative, and induces its votaries to relinquish a profitable delusion and embrace the dowerless truth.

13 Did you not observe with what eager avidity she became a votary to the gaming-table, and bragged away with the best of us?

14 This young monarch doesn’t understand that this androgynous votary of Dionysus is actually the god himself.

15 Religion teaches its votaries to sacrifice this world for the sake of that other.

16 a votary of the religious leader

17 Not mine to judge: I merely watch and note Thy votaries as they grieve or as they gloat, Uncertain whether envy or amaze Or pity most is prompted by the craze.

18 There was a demonstration I could feel important, votary and victim of the "scene," the scene and the "atmosphere" only, that I had been formed to be.

19 Is it not clear that the "votaries of religion" believe that the universe contains, in addition to the things familiar to us all, an extra item called God, known only to people of faith?

20 The cause of fox-hunting was never yet furthered by votaries, who appear to think everything else in the way of sport unworthy of thought or notice.

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