What's the difference between cult and votary?

Cult


Definition:

  • (n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.
  • (n .) A system of religious belief and worship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (2) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (3) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
  • (4) But its films, carefully tied to the personal cult of Hayao Miyazaki , are so distinctive, so Ghibli, that they don't seem to belong with traditional anime.
  • (5) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
  • (6) He promised targeted powers to enable the UK to deal with the facilitators and cult leaders to stop them “peddling their hatred”.
  • (7) Cult superhero Meanwhile, Channel 4 has the E4 games portal, and its cross-platform team commissions simple web-based games to accompany shows, like the cult superhero comedy, Misfits.
  • (8) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
  • (9) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A group of children embrace in front of floral tributes left outside Cults academy in Aberdeen.
  • (11) Do they attack him – as the retiring veteran Queensland National party senator Ron Boswell urges – call him out as a cult of personality fuelled by gimmicks to try to stop him extending his influence.
  • (12) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
  • (13) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
  • (14) His war plan suggests possible outcomes such as "Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation ... Islam reduced to cult status".
  • (15) I have a clear view that if this is a part of international action against [Isis], that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good,” said the British prime minister.
  • (16) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
  • (17) I suspect he's happy to be cult, but would hate to be seen as cool.
  • (18) Yet chiropractic remains, in the opinion of medical commentators, an unscientific healing cult.
  • (19) This is a place where you could find animal sacrifices by the Santeria religious cult at an Audubon Society nature preserve.
  • (20) Skin tests on patients suffering from pollinosis suggest frequently an antigenic relationship between various grass and cult.

Votary


Definition:

  • (a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
  • (n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A weirdly prescient vignette in Cyril Connolly's Enemies Of Promise (1938) called Dunglass "a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favours and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others.
  • (2) I became a votary of the Boris cult,” the justice secretary wrote in 2005.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
  • (4) A sign, perhaps, that the votaries of the free market remain fearful of any challenges from below.
  • (5) Those sober, suited, serious people, who now pronounce themselves the only adults in the room , turn out to be demented utopian fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult.
  • (6) Those sober, suited, serious people turn out to be demented utopian fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult All this is but a recent chapter in the long tradition of subordinating human welfare to financial power.