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The term “votary” in literature often denotes a person who shows deep, sometimes religious, devotion to a cause, ideal, or person, and is used in both sacred and secular contexts. Writers employ it to characterize a fervent disciple of a faith or way of life, as seen in its depiction of religious dedication ([1], [2], [3]) and its use to denote a digital devotee of art, intellect, or even pleasure ([4], [5], [6]). The word also appears in satirical and critical tones, highlighting excessive or self-important adherence to a particular fashion or ideology ([7], [8]). In each instance, “votary” conveys a strong sense of commitment, whether it is to spiritual pursuits, cultural endeavors, or personal passions ([9], [10], [11]).
  1. I took the veil; and never was the world quitted by so willing a votary as myself.
    — from The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
  2. Possibly she herself was originally a votary of Aten, which would account for the reverence with which her son, Amen-hetep IV, regarded that deity.
    — from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence
  3. Thou hast insulted the Holy Mother; thou hast proposed infamy to her votary; thou hast denied thy Christian faith.
    — from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3) by Meadows Taylor
  4. As he is a votary of music, he took me to hear Madame Pasta.
    — from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
  5. [F] Lord Gardenstone was himself a votary of the muses, though his verses are now forgotten.
    — from The Poetical Works of James Beattie by James Beattie
  6. The votary of pleasure, conscious of yesterday's void, wishes for power to arrest time's haste till a few more hours of mirth shall be enjoyed.
    — from Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There by Harriet E. Wilson
  7. What so unlike this idea as the fashionable votary, while she strangles and strains to get out of the superfine, creaseless kid cages?
    — from Where Art Begins by Hume Nisbet
  8. Gerty was dressed simply but with the instinctive taste of a votary of Dame Fashion for she felt that there was just a might that he might be out.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  9. During these halcyon centuries, it is difficult to distinguish the follower of Moses from the votary of Mahomet.
    — from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
  10. 259 This serves them in place of armor and every other defence: it renders the votary of the goddess safe even in the midst of foes.
    — from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
  11. Matthias had a mean opinion of Tarrant, thought him quite second-rate, a votary of played-out causes.
    — from The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James

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