votive

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Light a votive candle to remember someone in prayer.

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dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers"

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adjective

dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for votive.

adjective

dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers"

Example sentences

Light a votive candle to remember someone in prayer.

The "IED" was a photo of a smashed votive candle, presumably found on the ground.- The article seeks to find and name "leaders".

To realise that ideas are difficult and that mistakes are a votive offering demanded by answers.

According to the anthropologist meme, the answer is always "votive objects".

Cluny musuem du moyen age in Paris is still a fantastic place to visit filled with things, including votive trinkets flung or lost in the Seine.

Praying to a saint that can't be proven, lighting a votive candle, or dropping money in the poor box does not compete with investigating atoms.

Families were forced to sell their comely sons and virgin daughters, and cities their votive offerings, pictures, and sacred statues.

A vendetta, held as votive not in vain but for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and virtuous.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.