votive
投票,投票人,投票者,投票表决
Definitions
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- : offered, given, dedicated, etc., in accordance with a vow: a votive offering.
- : performed, undertaken, etc., in consequence of a vow.
- : of the nature of or expressive of a wish or desire.
Examples
In the dining room, that means the votives are oyster shells filled with wax.
On the path leading to the building’s front door, someone has arranged alternating pairs of small votive candles and veladoras—taller candles in glass jars with images of Jesus on their sides.
You can now find her hooded image on cars, necklaces, votive candles, tattoos, and altars across Mexico and the United States.
The image registers, simultaneously, as both very crude and utterly credible, like a votive offering to our technological age.
A woman is crouching, trying to get a red votive candle lit.
Emperor Ferdinand also visited it and left, as a votive offering, his gold pectoral chain on the altar.
In the suburb is the celebrated temple Asclepieium, full of votive offerings, among which is the Antigonus of Apelles.
They brought them wreaths of flowers and other votive offerings.
She was on her knees, the mellow points of the votive candles lighting her uplifted face in a glow of serene radiance.
On some votive stones the characters were red, cut out in round pieces of granite with a white underlayer.