(a.) Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were not going to be modern sacrifices, entombed in some future museum, still clutching our votive digital gadgets.
(2) The account mixes the method of magic fiction and a Greek chorus – a blind seller of little metal religous votive plaques, tamata , who has the power to zoom in on the lives of the other characters – with lyrical descriptions of Ninon’s fancy-free life and sharp cinematic cuts between brief sequences describing the journey of her mother from Austria and her father (Berger’s motorbike-riding doppelgänger) from France to Ninon’s wedding in the village church of Gorino in the delta of the river Po.
(3) Even if they did nothing else, and even if prosaic reality means the Obama presidency fails more often than it succeeds, this has made the Obamas truly iconic for millions of people – their image acting as a kind of votive touchstone, conveying hope for a better world.
(4) Votive tablets found during the excavation of shrines of the Graeco-Roman god of medicine (Asklepios or Aesculapius) associate the healing of superficial lesions with contact with the oral cavity of non-poisonous serpents.
(5) Around the altar, worshippers light votive candles, or leave offerings - dollar bills, toy trucks, tapes of narcocorridos.