devotor
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devotor (plural devotors)
- (obsolete) A worshipper; one given to devotion.
- 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto IX. The Temptation.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] George Boddington, […], published 1651, →OCLC, stanza 123, page 146, column 1:
- This done: His ſacred Hand He lifted up, / And round about on his Devotor's dealt / His bounteous bleſſing.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “devotor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)