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Definition of Devotees
1. devotee [n] - See also: devotee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devotees
Literary usage of Devotees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1827)
"CONTRAST OF JUGGERNAUTS AND THEIR devotees. THE Missionary Magazine for October,
1824, ... When the devotees of Military Glory met for the worship oi their ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"Rama replied :—"It devotees. jj] becomes you to supplicate me, as I ought to be
supplicating you, for I am at the command of the Brahmans : I have entered ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"I should shock Garrick's devotees if I uttered all my opinion : I will trust your
ladyship with it—it ie, that Le Texter is twenty limes ..."
4. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by Wilbur Henry Siebert (1898)
"... Important and interesting among the abductors are the few individuals that we
must call, for want of a better designation, the devotees of abduction. ..."
5. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... in the interior of a cathedral—Mass—A sanctified family—Crucifix—Different
ways of doing the same thing—Altar—Paintings—The Virgin— Female devotees. ..."
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