religious person

Noun
  1. A person who manifests devotion to a deity (synset 109651570)
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
    subtypes:
    • religionist - a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
    • christian - a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
    • non-catholic - a religious person who is not a Catholic
    • moslem, muslim - a believer in or follower of Islam
    • buddhist - one who follows the teachings of Buddha
    • hindoo, hindu - a person who adheres to Hinduism
    • abstainer, ascetic - someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
    • agnostic - a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)
    • anointer - one who anoints as a religious ceremony
    • believer, worshiper, worshipper - a person who has religious faith
    • celibate - an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
    • church member, churchgoer - a religious person who goes to church regularly
    • coreligionist - someone having the same religion as another person
    • mandaean, mandean - a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah
    • missionary, missioner - someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
    • moonie - an often derogatory term for a member of the Unification Church
    • oblate - a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
    • ebionite, nazarene - a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
    • novice, novitiate - someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
    • pagan - a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew)
    • parsee, parsi - a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India
    • penitent - (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
    • prayer, supplicant - someone who prays to God
    • prophet - someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God
    • religious - a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
    • religious leader - leader of a religious order
    • sabbatarian - one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)
    • sacrificer - a religious person who offers up a sacrifice
    • tritheist - someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods
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