What's the difference between devoter and votary?

Devoter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who devotes; a worshiper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (2) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (3) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
  • (4) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
  • (5) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
  • (6) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
  • (7) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.
  • (8) A section of the paper is devoted to the less common use of Indoklon.
  • (9) In contrast, corporate support was positively correlated with the number of hours of total work per week, but negatively correlated with the amount of time currently devoted to research.
  • (10) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
  • (11) I write as someone who has devoted my professional life mainly to other 19th novelists than Dickens.
  • (12) I came from a strong family and my parents had a devoted marriage, but I experienced the toll breast cancer took on their relationship and their children.
  • (13) They envisage cuts in farm support payments of more than €150,000 a year, with a cap set at €300,000, in order to devote more subsidy to smaller, family-run farms and ensure a fairer distribution of funds.
  • (14) During the course of the daily practice of forensic pathology, little or no attention is generally devoted to the tongue (if it is even removed at all during the autopsy examination) except in a handful of relatively well-defined situations.
  • (15) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
  • (16) The present research is devoted to the study of the effect of coupling force on bone conduction threshold determination.
  • (17) 3) Possible mechanisms of directed fibre growth are being elucidated by increasing efforts in research devoted to cell surface molecules, neurotrophic, and inhibitory substances, and their receptors.
  • (18) The first is devoted to an explanation of a number of notions stemming from work by Ilya Prigogine and others on open systems far from equilibrium.
  • (19) That's in 1888; by 1890 the tone is of comic resignation (there is much comedy in these pages) as Edmond realises that he has devoted the whole of his life "to a special sort of literature: the sort that brings one trouble".
  • (20) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.

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.

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