The language of the Votarist is this: The woman I now love may be infinitely inferior to many others; the creed I now profess may be a mass of errors and absurdities; but I exclude myself from all future information as to the amiability of the one and the truth of the other, resolving blindly, and in spite of conviction, to adhere to them.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
The Votarist is one who has made a vow.
"Minor Poems by Milton"
John Milton
Like a sad Votarist in palmer's weed.
"The Principles of English Versification"
Paull Franklin Baum