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religionist|rɪˈlɪdʒənɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One addicted or attached to religion; one imbued with, or zealous for, religion. Sometimes in bad sense, a religious zealot or pretender. Also, one professionally occupied with religion; a minister or preacher.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. i. §3 Religionists having for pious purposes forged so many false Miracles..they have thereby with the Atheist taken away all belief of those which are true. 1671Crowne Juliana Ded., If I may have leave from our rigid religionists, to prosecute the metaphor. 1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 4 As for the moderate, rational and intelligent religionists, they are so few. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. iii. i. 133 He has his private Opinion, Belief, or Faith, as strong as any Devotee or Religionist of 'em all. 1757Hume Ess., Nat. Hist. Relig. (1817) II. 398 These pretended religionists are really a kind of superstitious atheists. 1812J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 214 A dispassionate, placid, and mild religionist. 1843Wordsw. Prose Wks. (1876) III. 169 A Savant, who is not also a poet in soul and a religionist in heart, is a feeble and unhappy creature. 1865Lightfoot Comm. Gal. (1876) 369 The external service of the religionist..is pronounced [by St. James] deceitful and vain. 1870O. Logan Before Footlights & behind Scenes xl. 603 While clergymen and religionists, as now, stand afar off and denounce the theatre. 1895Wales Aug. 361/2 The antagonism that some classes of religionists have shown to the pastoral care of the church is to be attributed, most frequently, to one of two things. 1939Wyndham Lewis Jews v. 55 The Jews are..the great religionists of the West. 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 304/3 Lately in the United States religionist has taken on a new and definite meaning. When religionists are referred to in the current press, it is clear that this term includes anyone who is professionally occupied with religion, of whatever church, movement or status—that is, anyone from Billy Graham to Reinhold Niebuhr. 1966Ibid. 13 May 683/1 Secularists are not demanding what religionists demand and obtain, namely public subsidy for their own propaganda institutions. They deplore all propagandising of children. 1977Private Eye 1 Apr. 8/1 Mr Arthur Blessit..a Los Angeles religionist, was assaulted by a number of similarly moved but differently associated people.
Hence religioˈnistic a.
1889Bp. W. B. Carpenter Perm. Elem. Relig. v. 192 The religionistic spirit lowers the moral tone. |