Crossword-Solution: VOTARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Votary | a. | Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. |
| Votary | n. | 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. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “VOTARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| To vary (anag.) – staunch believer | 1 answer |
| person dedicated to religion or to a cause | 1 answer |
| Zealous believer | 1 answer |
| Staunch believer | 1 answer |
| Religious adherent | 1 answer |
| Devout worshipper | 1 answer |
| Ardent worshipper | 1 answer |
| Ardent worshiper. | 2 answers |
| Ardent supporter | 3 answers |
| AN ADHERENT OF MONOPHYSITISM | 10 answers |
| AN ADHERENT OF NEOPLATONISM | 10 answers |
| AN ADHERENT OF MANICHAEISM | 10 answers |
| AN ADHERENT OF DONATISM | 10 answers |
| A DEVOTED ADHERENT OF A CAUSE OR PERSON OR ACTIVITY | 11 answers |
| Worshipper. | 13 answers |
| User | 16 answers |
| Habitué | 19 answers |
| Adherent | 33 answers |
| Devotee | 47 answers |
| Zealot | 48 answers |
| Lover | 54 answers |
| Follower | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VOTARY (5)
What do you mean? In the first place, her votary should not have a lame or halting industry--I mean, that he should not be half industrious and half idle: as, for example, when a man is a lover of gymnastic and hunting, and all other bodily exercises, but a hater rather than a lover of the labour of learning or listening or enquiring.
Mademoiselle Noémie’s jealous votary was a tall, robust young man with a thick nose, a prominent blue eye, a Germanic physiognomy, and a massive watch-chain.
Will waking tumult never cease? Hast thou thy votary forgot? Nature forsakes this man-begot And festering wilderness, and now The long still hours are here, no jot Of dear communing do I know; Instead the glaring, man-filled city groans below! A Fairy Tale On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures.
They generally travel in families, for the women are of course more ardent than their husbands in undertaking these pious enterprises, and they take care to bring with them all their children, however young; for the efficacy of the rites does not depend upon the age of the votary, so that people whose careful mothers have obtained for them the benefit of the pilgrimage in early life, are saved from the expense and trouble of undertaking the journey at a later age.
The key rattled, and the door swung open--but the black-cassocked gentleman who stepped in, though a priest indeed, was no votary of idolatrous rites, but that sound orthodox divine, the Reverend Ozias Mounce, looking very much perturbed at his surroundings, and very much on the alert for the Scarlet Woman.
Quotes with VOTARY (3)
Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet might consider the following cleansing strategies: keep faith with the canonical writers of the past, study Homeric Greek, excavate etymologies, embrace threatened languages, practice the fine art of translation, listen regularly to the musical flow of the breath and the beat of the heart, switch off the television, become a votary of …
Thou art a votary to fond desire
Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts — the eye which can pick up the print effortlessly’. If one was to be a good reader, that is to read as easily as one breathed, practice was needed. ‘I read the newspapers because they’re mostly trash,’ he said in 1936. ‘Newspapers are good practice in learning how to skip; and, if he is not to lose his time, every serious reader must have this art.’ Travelling by train from New York to Washing…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1984–2016).