devotee
[dev-uh-tee, -tey]
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Origin of devotee
Synonyms
See more synonyms for devotee on Thesaurus.com1, 3. See fanatic.
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Examples from the Web for devotee
Contemporary Examples
Fleiss makes the film as a devotee would, depicting Weir in a saintly glow.
As a new American devotee, this was a profoundly patriotic impulse.
After reading an article about shopping local in 2006, I became a devotee of the online, artisan marketplace.
A devotee, Kreeft gives Lewis the big philosophical guns, and has him trouncing Kennedy and Huxley pretty comprehensively.
He was a pothead, a devotee of hip hop, a lifeguard, a high school wrestler, an aspiring dentist.
Historical Examples
She was mistaken in her surmises, however, for Lisa was not a devotee.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
This man was evil, not with the grossness of a debauchee but with the thinness of the devotee.
Sir Henry Morgan, BuccaneerCyrus Townsend Brady
It was the submissive worship of a devotee before some sacred relic!
Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2)Charles James Lever
His generous, kindly approval of the eggs cheered this devotee.
A Great ManArnold Bennett
No, don't; for my reputation would be gone if I were thought to be a devotee.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
devotee
- a person ardently enthusiastic about or devoted to something, such as a sport or pastime
- a zealous follower of a religion
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Word Origin and History for devotee
n.
1640s, from devote, with a French suffix, perhaps on model of assignee. Earlier in this sense was devote (1620s).
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