religionist

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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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  1. A religious bigot, partizan, or formalist; a sectarian: sometimes used in other than a condemnatory sense. From the same source from whence, among the religionists, the attachment to the principle of asceticism took its rise, flowed other doctrines and practices, from which misery in abundance was pruduced in one man by the instrumentality of another: witness the holy wars, and the persecutions for religion. Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, ii. 8. There is a verse …in the second of the two detached cantos of “Mutability,” “Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace,” which is supposed to glance at the straiter religionists. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 167.

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  • The “neighbor” who in Judaism was specially the co-religionist, was in his estimation the man who has pity on his kind without distinction of sect. —  The Life of Jesus
  • Any religionist is acceptable in Australia except any that are required by their religion to kill those of us who don't accept their religion. —  Ethical Technology
  • As an ex-religionist, I used to devote all my time to attacking science and reason. —  Planet Atheism
  • 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. —  World and Global Politics Blog
  • But they do not rebuke and condemn their co-religionist as murderers and heretics. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
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  1. =Spanish religionista; as religion + -ist.
 

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