Show delvat on of vote vote Is a word with a curious his tory to the roman a waa a solemn promise made to a deity rom the solemn promise itsell 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 sime sense when ben jonson wrote of public votes to heaven he meant not mass meeting resolutions but prayers finally vote acquired its present meaning the formal and em phalle expression of a wish while the old sense remains with Us doublet |