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A Not-So-Simple Question: Why Do We Laugh?

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Birth Control Works6/13/2014 7:21:03 am PDT
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

votary

PRONUNCIATION:
(VOH-tuh-ree)

MEANING:
noun: 1. One who is devoted to an activity, person, institution, etc.
noun: 2. One who has taken vows to a religion, such as a monk or nun.
adjective: Bound by a vow or relating to a vow.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin votum (vow), from vovere (to vow), which also gave us vow, vote, and devote. Earliest documented use: 1546.

do we know any who fits this category?