devotee

CEFRB2

/ˌdɛv.əˈtiː/

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A person (almost exclusively a man) with a sexual attraction for people with physical disabilities, especially amputees.
An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

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These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
1908 January 26, John Muir, “Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin
*The Expanse'*s patois has become, like Klingon and Dothraki, the show's great unifier—the slang all devotees speak.
2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022
It has been said that a Japanese is a Shintōist in life and a Buddhist at death; and it is also true that he may be during life, at one and the same time, a devotee of both.
1913, Ernest Wilson Clement, A Handbook of Modern Japan, page 253
The amputee-devotee community, consisting of women with amputations and the men sexually attracted to them, has been widely discussed within the disability community.
2004, Alison Kafer, “Inseparable: Gender and disability in the amputee-devotee community”, in Gendering Disability, page 108
He becomes involved in a story about a community of wannabes and devotees, those who desire to be sexually intimate with disabled bodies, and meets Fiona, an art conservator and wannabe, or disabled pretender.
2019, Ann Millett-Gallant, “Basilisk and the Representation of Physically Disabled Women in Film”, in Contemporary Art and Disability Studies

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From devote + -ee. The narrowed meaning in sense 3 arises from the sound similarity with amputee.