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Religionist

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re·li·gion·ism  (r-lj-nzm)
n.
Excessive or affected religious zeal.

re·ligion·ist n.
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Noun1.Religionist - a person addicted to religion or a religious zealotreligionist - a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deity


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His own marriage at a future day with a lady without not only the pale, but the influence, of this sect of religionists, had a tendency, it is true, to weaken his early impressions; still he retained them in some degree to the hour of his death, and was observed uniformly, when much interested or agitated, to speak in the language of his youth.
It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest.
He would have been an awkward member of the party; for, though the most appreciative humanist, the most ideal religionist, even the best-versed Christologist of the three, there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.
 
 
 
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