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Date: 2014-08-19 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: votive: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Aug. 19, 2014

votive \VOH-tiv\ adjective 1. offered, given, dedicated, etc., in accordance with a vow: a votive offering. 2. performed, undertaken, etc., in consequence of a vow. Quotes Behind the barricades--made of paving stones, or chairs, or the carcasses of cars--people had built makeshift altars, with votive candles, incense, and framed pictures, to commemorate killed protesters where they had fallen. -- Jon Lee Anderson, "Revolutionary Relics," The New Yorker, May 1, 2014 Origin Votive shares a root with the word vote in the Latin term vōtum meaning "vow." Votive entered English around 1600.

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