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vot'ress

vot'ress is the obsolete spelling of votress.

Meaning of votress

Noun (1)

votress (plural votresses)

  1. (archaic, historical) A female votary.
    • “Breathe soft, ye Gales!” the fair Carlina cries, / “Bear on broad wings your Votress to the skies.”1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 52

Noun (2)

votress (plural votresses)

  1. A female that votes; a female voter.

Forms of vot'ress

pluralvot'resses

Questions about vot'ress

What is vot'ress the obsolete spelling of?
Vot'ress is the obsolete spelling of votress.

Words near vot'ress in the dictionary

  1. Vostizza
  2. Vostizzas
  3. vostra culpa
  4. vostra culpas
  5. VoT
  6. vot'ress
  7. vot'resses
  8. votable
  9. votal
  10. votaress
  11. votaresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vot'ress (page history and authors); votress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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