VOTARIST Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

votarist

noun

ˈvō-tə-rist

Definition of votarist

as in adherent

one who follows the opinions or teachings of another votarists of the literary critic seemed to have penetrated the English department of every university in the country

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Sloganeering was the lingua franca of what adherents referred to as the Stanley Opportunity.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of adherent

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Mascots, once an afterthought, are celebrities—Gritty, the beguiling ogre that represents Philadelphia’s hockey team, the Flyers, has significantly more Instagram followers than any of the team’s players.

— Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Johnson, known as DreamDoll Brii on social media, was a budding influencer with more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 on her TikTok account _itgirbri.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2026

Definition of follower

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As a disciple of Brian Flores, new defensive coordinator Daronte Jones is expected to run a highly aggressive, creative and unpredictable defense that applies a lot of pressure on opposing quarterbacks.

— Mike Jones, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Ng began learning tai chi in 1989 from Master Gene Chen, a disciple of Grandmaster Feng ZhiQiang.

— Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

Definition of disciple

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Exhibited for the first time outside of Sarajevo, the churning Socialist Realist homage invokes Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People in figuring partisans heroically overcoming their would-be Nazi aggressors.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
Reynolds tracks the willingness of northern partisans—Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and even Sumner himself—to abandon that cause by the dwindling references to Jamestown and Plymouth.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

Definition of partisan

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