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votaress

/voh-ter-is/US // ˈvoʊ tər ɪs //

投票,投票表决,选票,投票结果

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Now Rare.

    • : a woman who is a votary.

Examples

  • The mother-superior took the votaress at her word, and left her then and there.

  • "Surely, daughter," said the abbess, gently as with her own hand she opened the door and led her votaress into the room.

  • Such talk, both priest and votaress told her, was not meet for dutiful daughter or betrothed maiden.

  • Thaisa, thinking Pericles dead, becomes a votaress at Diana's temple.

  • All wait for the votaress, but she is detained by a crowd of friends.