Thus too he communed with himself: “How long Page 244 cunctatur mea vota socer?
Here is a sacred old gentleman, whom it is not safe to depend on for interpreting the Scriptures, thinks her Majesty; but does not say so, leaving Father Vota to his reflections.
But these private vota were not, strictly speaking, legal transactions, supposed to bind both parties in a contract, as we shall see was to some extent the case with the vota publica.
But it is in the vota publica that we undoubtedly find something in the nature of a bargain--covenant would be a more graceful word--with a deity in the name of the State.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vota" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
