Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A religious bigot, partizan, or formalist; a sectarian: sometimes used in other than a condemnatory sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
religious zealot
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
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Examples
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Looks to me like the religionist are the ones losing over the Freedom From Releigon's use of free speech!
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Looks to me like the religionist are the ones losing over the Freedom From Releigon's use of free speech!
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Looks to me like the religionist are the ones losing over the Freedom From Releigon's use of free speech!
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Any investigator putting together a different story is defined as a religionist and cast out of the fraternity.
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Any investigator putting together a different story is defined as a religionist and cast out of the fraternity.
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And when a professional religionist begins something by saying, "Once upon a time, there was a house …," there is every reason to assume - especially if the religionist is a Christian - that we are about to re-visit, whether we wish to or not, the parable of the two houses.
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Perhaps it is pertinent to remember that Mr. Carlyle, in fact, is a prophet with a faith, and he holds the opposition kind of religionist in
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880
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I presume Wollaston is either exactly the kind of religionist Dawkins is addressing, or some kind of liberal who thinks religion os a good thing (even if he cant believe himself) and that somehoe religion should be given a "free pass" just as Dawkins says it shouldnt.
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A scientist who decides that he has arrived at absolutely conclusive answers has ceased being a scientist and has become a kind of religionist; not in the most usual form, perhaps, but a religionist in his mind-set.
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Nothing like a "religionist" straw man to bait, for thinkers who can't look at themselves
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