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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Noun

During the ’50s, Zeno forged a connection with André Breton, a cofounder of Surrealism, and exhibited alongside the movement’s adherents in Europe.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
But experts and adherents alike warn that this idea fails to reckon with how different traditions and worldviews can often contradict one another.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of adherent

Noun

His page has a respectable few thousand followers, but nothing stratospheric.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Morison’s followers called themselves Hygeists and attacked physicians as a monopoly that bled and poisoned its patients, which was not inaccurate in the 1830s.

— Jim Downs, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of follower

Noun

One of the 72 disciples appointed by Jesus who is traditionally believed to be the young man fleeing naked at Jesus’ arrest.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Mitchell had told her EIN disciples not to worry after Wiles’ brush off.

— Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of disciple

Noun

But the clean provenance and their New York highlife has never appeased Pooh partisans who think Fifth Avenue is much too far from the Hundred Acre Wood.

— STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Overwhelming shares of partisans support their party’s candidates – 98% of Democratic likely voters and 96% of Republican likely voters each support their party candidates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026

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