Sentences with word «votary»

It is true that such efforts met with stout opposition from the conservative votaries of the faith.

Barack Obama was cast as such, but he had advantages any social conservative would lack, and it only took a short time for even his most passionate votaries to be disappointed.

Artwork featured in gallery: Cypriot, Beardless male votary (detail), 6th — 5th century BCE.

Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.

He caught there what we would see played out, with a venomous, unbending force a year later, as the votaries of same - sex marriage would seek to bring down the hammer of the law on such luminaries as bakers and florists.

Rorty and his votaries respond with Whitman: «Do I contradict myself?

As he goes on to say in Federalist Number 39, the republican form is also demanded by «that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self - government.»

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

A fundamentalist ideology in any religion generates hatred, suspicion and fears, in the minds of its votaries, towards other religions.

addict, adherent, admirer, advocate, apostle, attendant, backer, believer, bootlicker, buff, client, cohort, companion, convert, copycat, devotee, disciple, fan, fancier, freak *, habitué, hanger - on, helper, imitator, lackey, member, minion, parasite, participant, partisan, patron, promoter, proselyte, protégé, pupil, representative, satellite, sectary, servant, sidekick, stooge, supporter, sycophant, toady, vassal, votary, worshiper, zealot... sheep, lemmings

It brings its votary from the chill periphery of things to the radiant core.

Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»

As the contempt of the religion of a country by ridiculing any of its ceremonies, or affronting its ministers or votaries, has ever been deeply resented, you are to be particularly careful to restrain every officer from such imprudence and folly, and to punish every instance of it.

What if Lin was a Muslim and said that we must all repent and be votaries to allah and accept his prophet mohammed.

Jerry is known as a man who guards a buck as closely as he guarded the opposition's top scorer, and he is a bargain hunter of the first order — a devotee of garage and estate sales, a regular at auctions, a votary of flea markets.

For the votaries of Pakistan (like for those who supported an independent Bangladesh later), it was a new beginning, the birth of a nation.

The collection opens with a tribute to MKO Abiola, the martyr of June 12, with «votaries» toasting to his ultimate sacrifice and golden memory: «To justice, wisdom and freedom...» — big sounding cant, to usher in — «Happy democracy in Nigeria.»

To comment on that miserly sum, we can only echo Brewster's cry of 1830: «And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science?

(In a sense, a votary needs his flock to be in pain, to need him; a pastor who's not needed, like Toller, will succumb to man's innate desire for self - destruction.)

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness.

The early Baroque artist's dramatic depiction of a votary of Bacchus was rediscovered only a few years ago in a courtyard in Austria.