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Meaning of RELIGIONIST

Pronunciation:  reel'ijun`ist

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a person who manifests devotion to a deity
 
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 Synonyms: religious person
 
 Antonyms: nonreligious person
 
 See Also: abstainer, anointer, ascetic, believer, Buddhist, celibate, Christian, church member, churchgoer, coreligionist, Eddy, Fox, George Fox, Hindoo, Hindu, human, individual, Mary Baker Eddy, Mary Morse Baker Eddy, missionary, missioner, Mohammedan, mortal, Moslem, Muhammadan, Muhammedan, Muslim, non-Catholic, novice, novitiate, Parsee, Parsi, penitent, person, prayer, prophet, religious, religious leader, Sabbatarian, sacrificer, somebody, someone, soul, supplicant, tritheist, worshiper, worshipper

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Re*li"gion*ist\, n.
One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious
zealot.
      The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the
      Puritan religionists.                    --Palfrey.
      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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