Show delvat on of vote vote is a word with a curious his tory to the roman a was a solemn promise made to a deity from the solemn promise itself the meaning of gradually became the prayer or intense wish that accod palled the promise and then any in tense wish whatever so far the da pro ceded in latin and vote passed into english with the same sense when ben jonson wrote of public votes to heaven he meant not mass resolutions but prayers finally vote acquired its present meaning the formal and em expression of a wish while the old sense remains with its doublet |