devotee (devote)

[ or practice; a votary; specifically, one given wholly to religious devotion; an extravagantly or superstitiously devout person. A devotee is one of those who disparage religion by their indiscreet and unreasonable introduction of the mention of virtue on all occasions. Steele , Spectator, No. 354. Christianity has had, in all ages and in all sects, its devo tees and martyrs. Story , Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. =Syn. Zealot, enthusiast. devotee ism (dev-ō-tē'izm), n. [ Ritualistic devotee ism is the unhealthy development of religious introspection. J. Owen , Evenings with Skeptics, II. 477. devotement (de-võtment), n. [ devotement was the demand of Apollo. Bp. Hurd, Notes on Horace's Art of Poetry.