Adherent (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- She was an adherent of the famous guru and traveled extensively to spread his teachings.
- The charismatic leader gained a large number of adherents in the early days of the movement.
- He became an adherent of the popular self-help author after attending one of her seminars.
- The activist was a vocal adherent of the environmental movement and encouraged others to join her cause.
- The young preacher was a devoted adherent of the prophetic movement and spent years studying its doctrine.
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- Hinayanist
- Zoroastrian
- Tantrist
- Dualist
- Zen Buddhist
- Bahai
- Satanist
- Shintoist
- Clericalist
- Apostle
- Lamaist
- Manichaean
- Animist
- Amoralist
- Trinitarian
- Votary
- Unitarian
- Mithraist
- Jainist
- Monophysite
- Neoplatonist
- Sikh
- Donatist
- Mahdist
- Mahayanist
- Manichee
- Aristotelian
- Antinomian
- Peripatetic
- Fundamentalist
- Absolutist
- Ismaili
- Arminian
- Lutheran
- Totalitarian
- Socinian
- Rastafarian
- Druze
- Taoist
- Hussite