votive

Speech parts

1. votive - Noun

2. votive - Adjective

3. votive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.

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Examples

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. Lewis H. Lapham

Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Venus, take my votive glass; Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see. Matthew Prior

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. Anne Lamott

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices. Sallust

Historically, it was Euclidean geometry that, developed to a large extent as a votive offering to the God of Reason, opened men's eyes to the possibility of design and to the possibility of uncovering it by the pursuit of mathematics. Morris Kline

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