votiving

[Joel S. Berson]

Staying away from the political -- might "votiving" have some
parentage from "motivating"?

Joel

At 10/15/2013 10:19 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
> From a comment on The Fix today:
>
>Americans have no votiving discpline. The GOP will recover within a year.
>
>Google showed 87 raw hits.  A few had to do with the use of votive candles,
>but most appeared to use the word instead of "voting."
>
>Herb
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