Believer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Believer \Be*liev"er\, n.
     1. One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or
        reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
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     2. (Theol.) One who gives credit to the truth of the


        Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a
        more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his
        Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the
        gospel.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all
              believers.                            --Book of Com.
                                                    Prayer.
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     3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who was admitted to all the rights of
        divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the
        Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or
        one yet under instruction.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  believer
       n 1: a supporter who accepts something as true [syn: {truster}]
       2: a person who has religious faith [syn: {worshiper}, {worshipper}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "believer":
     Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, catechumen, churchgoer,
     churchite, churchman, communicant, convert, cultist,
     daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, fanatic,
     fideist, follower, good Christian, ist, neophyte, pietist,
     proselyte, receiver, religioner, religionist, religious believer,
     saint, the assured, the believing, the faithful, theist,
     true believer, truster, votary, zealot