devotee
IPA: dɛvʌtˈi
noun
- An ardent enthusiast or admirer.
- (religion) A believer in a particular religion or god.
- (slang) Someone with an amputee fetish.
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Examples of "devotee" in Sentences
- My dad, the Fox “News” devotee, is a huge fan of Kiplings, having grown up in the British Empire himself.
- Mr. Williams, who appears to be a conspiracy devotee, is rightly concerned about the influence of money in American political campaigns.
- Zander is known as a devotee of Gustav Mahler and is currently recording the composer's complete works with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, according to his website.
- Romney is known as a devotee of arcane details, and that facility with information may prove useful in governing, but now might be the time to sell a more focused campaign theme.
- By the word devotee, we understand what Louis XIV. and Moliere did, persons the piety of whom consists in external observances; pious and charitable persons have nothing to do with this class.
- That is why I use the term devotee because it brings a different connotation; someone who is dedicated to following a specific faith rather than simply acknowledging it because they were born into it.
- And as a biographer of Virgil Thomson and a Gertrude Stein devotee, I am thrilled to be staying just a few blocks from the apartment building where Stein and Alice B. Toklas lived at 27 Rue de Fleurus.
- Rob Humanick at the Stranger Song: "In ways more complex than even the most ardent Lynch devotee is likely to recognize, Inland Empire challenges our very relationship to the fabric of film, from its own physical creation with digital photography to the split-personality groove it etches out, many scenes equally demanding both horror and humor from the audience."
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