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Holy Roller
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Holy Roller
n. Offensive
Used as a disparaging term for a member of any of various religious denominations in which spiritual fervor is expressed by shouts and violent body movements.
Holy Roller
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Derogatory a member of a sect that expresses religious fervour in an ecstatic or frenzied way
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Noun1.Holy Roller - a member of a religion that expresses ecstatic fervor
church member, churchgoer - a religious person who goes to church regularly


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Schools named after saints and other holy rollers make for great headlines on the sports page.
See you in the funny papers by Dix, Tara / U.S. Catholic
In this Appalachian backwoods town where Holy Rollers demonstrate their holiness by snake handling and drinking strychnine poison, Adam meets the beautiful, enigmatic Blue Kerdi, daughter of a Kurdish Arab nomad.
Sunday's silence, a novel. (Paperback Fiction) by Allison, Susan G. / Kliatt
While this might not be the crusade Pat Robertson had in mind, it is taking on the proportions of one, turning the disenfranchised into a commodity for the holy rollers.
Missions in the Middle East: The New Dark Ages. (Special Report) by Ochs, Peter J., II / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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