(n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabella was a devotee of 5-3-2 when he led Estudiantes to the title and the Copa Libertadores but the danger of using three central defenders against a lone centre-forward is that, with two spare men, one is left redundant.
(2) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .
(3) Brompton has fared well from the growing number of devotees.
(4) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
(5) The billionaire founder of Facebook has apologised to the website's 57 million devotees for its handling of a controversial advertising feature which has sparked furious protests about privacy.
(6) She will be sharing it with British devotees for three days from Sunday, when her European tour reaches London's Alexandra Palace.
(7) It was a extraordinary match, New Zealand the devotees of attack, forced to defend for all their worth.
(8) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
(9) Both solar power and hydrogen fuel cells have their devotees, and can certainly lift demonstrator aircraft off the ground – though in both cases the main application seems likely to be powering auxiliary systems rather than aircraft engines.
(10) What miracles, envisioned in the fevered imaginations of so many cultists and devotees, were not made manifest?
(11) The show has plenty of devotees (and people mocking it) on both sides of the pond, but Brits get to see the latest season months ahead of their American counterparts.
(12) Since journalist Tom Mueller revealed how more than 70% of the extra virgin olive oil sold in the world is fake , olive oil devotees have been seeking out authentic, 100% real olive oil.
(13) AC 12 June 1966: Andy Warhol's factory John Heilpern's visit to Andy Warhol's Factory yielded a fascinating portrait of the artist and his circle of devotees.
(14) A mixed crowd of senior citizens and vintage car devotees here for an al fresco auction slurp their tea and ice creams and quietly look on.
(15) Talk to those who devote their lives to the study of violent jihadism, reading Isis’s propaganda and interviewing its devotees, and a different picture emerges.
(16) Two decades after that appointment, Khamenei has become so powerful that the assembly’s role has diminished to a symbolic one with members acting as his devotees, stripped of all their supervisory power even though they are still being elected in public votes.
(17) It would be ironic if China’s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism’s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than western devotees of free markets.
(18) The vehicles made during a ramped-up final year of production in Solihull include tributes to the HUE 166, the original Series I model whose Birmingham area number plate devotees all recognise, with Defenders painted in that original shade of RAF surplus green.
(19) EA’s multiplayer first-person shooter franchise attracts a fanatical group of hardcore devotees, but at the same time, swarms of players find it too exacting and intimidating.
(20) Martins had, like the football fan he is, been at the opening game the night before and his respect for stickers is as wholehearted as that of any devotee.
Zealot
Definition:
(n.) One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
Example Sentences:
(1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(2) In truth, in the space of one gag I had become more than a fan – I had become a zealot.
(3) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
(4) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
(5) Even then, Cameron heard a constant hum of discontent from the Brexit brigade: taxpayer-funded blimps such as Peter Bone and Philip Davies (he of the recent attacks on “feminist zealots” .
(6) A man stands up, spreads his arms wide and sings: “We love you Brian, we do.” He is instantly joined in the chant by a cluster of zealots dressed, like he is, from bobble hat to weatherproof boots in the royal blue and white livery of Sarpsborg 08 football club.
(7) But an international landscape increasingly dominated by nationalist firebrands, conservative zealots and policy makers in thrall to austerity economics is always apt to waste opportunities.
(8) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
(9) Yet zealots are attempting to have legislators pass laws preventing the use of electrotherapy even in voluntary patients.
(10) To the United States government, defenders of the war in Vietnam and conservatives everywhere, Ali was the most dangerous of enemies, a converted zealot, the bombastic mouthpiece of a religion few until then had heard of and hardly any of whom understood, the Nation of Islam.
(11) The presence of religious zealots such as Poots in government is a direct consequence of the peace process.
(12) He said: “Tomorrow, ironically, is the day the United Kingdom becomes truly united because it has only one position: that we are leaving the EU.” The former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said it was the moment that the “utopian wishful thinking from Brexiters” gave way to hard realities, calling on May to “face down the Brexit zealots in her own party and in the Brexit press”.
(13) In an analysis based on hundreds of case files, the security services concluded that there was no single pathway to extremism and far from being religious zealots, many of those involved in terrorism lacked religious literacy, did not practise their faith regularly and could even be regarded as religious novices.
(14) The GWPF is led by Lord Nigel Lawson and the annual lecture has been given by high-profile climate sceptics, including in 2013 former Australian prime minister John Howard, who described those urging action on climate change as “alarmists” and “zealots” for whom “the cause has become a substitute religion”.
(15) Barbers are banned from shaving off beards and women are forced to wear dark robes, while zealots ensure that music is banned from radio stations.
(16) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
(17) As the crowd swelled toward sunrise on Friday, it seemed to represent the larger citizenry of the American south: a calm and forward-looking people, shot through with a smaller number of zealots.
(18) St-Pierre warns that “based on the success of this long-term strategy so far, it is very difficult to imagine a scenario where Maiduguri does not fall into Boko Haram’s hands, albeit for a short period.” Boko Haram has morphed from a handful of religious zealots into a fighting force capable of taking on, and beating, one of Africa’s largest armies From a military perspective, this would be a stunning achievement for Boko Haram, which has morphed from a handful of religious zealots into a fighting force capable of taking on, and beating, one of Africa’s largest armies.
(19) But to others, Assange is just a zealot with a messiah complex.
(20) The anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-international aid zealots.