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Backer vs Votary - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between backer and votary

is that backer is one who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest while votary is a person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made.

As adjectives the difference between backer and votary

is that backer is comparative of back while votary is consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

backer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, s; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (phonetics) (back)
    • Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174:
  • :: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
    • English agent nouns

    votary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.

    Noun

    (votaries)
  • A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made
  • A devotee of a particular religion or cult
  • A devout or zealous worshipper
  • Someone who is devoted to a particular pursuit etc; an enthusiast.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • *:Gerty was dressed simply but with the instinctive taste of a votary of Dame Fashion for she felt that there was just a might that he might be out.

    • Quotations

    ;enthusiast *1893, , Collaboration [http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm] *: He is such a votary of the modern that he was inevitably interested in the girl of the future and had matched one reform with another, being ready to marry without a penny, as the clearest way of expressing his appreciation, this favourable specimen of the type.