votivelyadv.
/ˈvəʊtᵻvli/, U.S. /ˈvoʊdᵻvli/ΚΠ
1665 E. Worsley Truth will Out xii. 90 The Supernatural Act which reconciles to God, doth of necessity imply (Actually or Votively) a serious will of doing what ever God, Scripture, or Church Commands us.
2. As a votive offering; in the manner of a votive offering.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [adverb] > in a votive manner
votively1724
1724 T. Wearing Serm. Opening St. Andrew’s Church Penrith 10 in Two Serm. Our Chief was more a Man, than to bow to a Pillar, which he votively set up..in Memory of God's Appearance to him.
1847 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 237 Fruits placed votively on the shrine.
1999 World Archaeol. 31 248 Pearls were miniature symbols of the generative power of the sea as ‘mother of fertility’, and were votively offered as such.
3. As promised in a vow; in fulfilment of a vow. Also: solemnly, devoutly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adverb]
under oatha1325
on (also upon) one's faithc1405
faithfullyc1450
on (also upon) one's word1582
sacramentally1599
votally1614
promissorily1650
engagingly1651
obligingly1655
votively1857
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [adverb]
highlyOE
deeplyc1300
solemnlya1325
sadlya1375
soberly1382
demurelyc1400
sadc1400
seriouslyc1425
solemnya1470
murely1474
solemnedlyc1480
solenny1480
in (good, sober, serious) sadness1545
gravely1553
staidly1571
solemniouslya1578
solidly1632
in sad earnest1637
ponderously1637
in jest-earnest1642
in all seriousness1679
joking apart1745
unhumorously1768
solidly1799
in sober earnest1836
mirthlessly1853
votively1857
smilelessly1869
unmirthfully1872
unsmilingly1879
inhumorously1898
soberingly1923
straightfacedly1977
1857 J. B. Hope Leoni di Monota & Other Poems 139 I ne'er have forgotten..to offer my pray'r; Which daily to Heav'n I votively raise.
1955 Twentieth Cent. Lit. Oct. 148/2 It seems to him..that having votively and against a part of himself done his duty to hope by preserving for birth a human seed for birth in its soil, he might forever have done with it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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