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devotee | American Dictionary

devotee
noun[ C ]
us/ˌdev·əˈti, -ˈteɪ//dɪˌvoʊˈti/
a person who strongly admires a particular person or is extremely interested in a subject:
Devotees of jazz won’t want to miss this!

Examples of devotee

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What drives the itinerant opera devotee is the desire for vocal and musical moments, never visual ones.
We show how transnational networks of clergy and devotees are constituted through affiliations of kinship, loyalty and region.
Pamphlets and newsletters, posters, audio tapes and video cassettes circulate widely to provide potential devotees with a sampling of the available spiritual and religious wares.
They also constituted a key avenue to draw in financial resources from devotees to support these endeavors.
The first notable difference lies in these devotees' respective attitudes towards spiritual striving as a legitimate personal goal.
Ties between devotees, where they exist, pale into insignificance in comparison.
As noted above dharma ties between clerics and devotees who are loyal to the same master are considered to be weak.
What is striking in these accounts is the evident diversity in devotees' religious orientations and practices.
Devotees in the diaspora can also draw clergy into their own networks of devotees, although the network hinges on clerical authority for its integrity.
These activities proceeded through networks both local and transnational among the devotees.
Perhaps because the 'experiences' are not collective, but instead extremely personal and individual, most devotees are keen to share their 'experiences' with others.
Just as these devotees differ in the significance they attach to personal spiritual striving, they differ also in their attitude towards ritual.
The money is usually collected by a group of devotees, who then commission the group to perform in their locality.
Confronted with the unceasing traffic between past and present, historians have been unabashed devotees of deconstruction.
The taped and translated interviews of devotees illustrate how their beliefs about karma and its consequences have shaped their perceptions of these deities.
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