devotor

D2E1V4O1T1O1R1

noun

A worshipper; someone given to devotion.

OriginLatin dēvōtor →
Scrabble 11
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Meanings

noundevotor (plural devotors)

plural devotors

  1. obsoleteA worshipper; someone given to devotion.

    This done: His ſacred Hand He lifted up, / And round about on his Devotor's dealt / His bounteous bleſſing.

    1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto IX. The Temptation. Stanza 123.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 146, column 1

Origin

  1. Latindēvōtor
  2. Englishdevotor

Learned borrowing from Latin dēvōtor.

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APA

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Chicago

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