different between vindicator vs votary

English

Etymology

vindicate +? -or

Noun

vindicator (plural vindicators)

1. a person who vindicates

Latin

Etymology 1

From vindic? +? -tor.

Noun

vindic?tor m (genitive vindic?t?ris); third declension

1. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) avenger, vindicator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: venjador
• French: vengeur
• Italian: vendicatore
• Portuguese: vingador
• Spanish: vengador

Etymology 2

Verb forms.

Verb

vindic?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of vindic?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of vindic?

References

• vindicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vindicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Latin votus, past participle of vovere (“to vow, to devote”).

Adjective

votary (comparative more votary, superlative most votary)

1. Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Custom and Education

     Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.

Translations

Noun

votary (plural votaries)

1. (religion) A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made
2. (religion) A devotee of a particular religion or cult
3. (religion) A devout or zealous worshipper
4. Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an enthusiast.
   • 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]

     He is such a votary of the modern that he was inevitably interested in the girl of the future and had matched one reform with another, being ready to marry without a penny, as the clearest way of expressing his appreciation, this favourable specimen of the type.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13

     Gerty was dressed simply but with the instinctive taste of a votary of Dame Fashion for she felt that there was just a might that he might be out.

Translations

Anagrams

• travoy