Religionist

3 definitions found

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

  Religionist \Re*li"gion*ist\, n.
     One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious
     zealot.
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           The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the


           Puritan religionists.                    --Palfrey.
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           It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other
           heterodo? religionists, was to be scourged out of the
           town.                                    --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  religionist
       n : a person who manifests devotion to a deity [syn: {religious
           person}] [ant: {nonreligious person}]

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

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "religionist":
     Brahman, Buddhist, Christian, God-fearing man, Holy Willie,
     Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, accepter,
     affecter, anthroposophist, believer, canter, canting hypocrite,
     catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, communicant, convert,
     cultist, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple,
     dissembler, dissimulator, fanatic, follower, formalist,
     good Christian, hypocrite, ist, lip server, lip worshiper,
     neophyte, pharisee, pietist, pious fraud, poser, proselyte, ranter,
     receiver, religioner, religious hypocrite, saint, sniveler,
     snuffler, spiritual humbug, theist, truster, votary,
     whited sepulcher, zealot