adherent

Noun
  1. Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another (synset 110035803)
    is a type of: follower - a person who accepts the leadership of another
    subtypes:
    • zen buddhist - an adherent of the doctrines of Zen Buddhism
    • mahayanist - an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism
    • hinayanist - an adherent of Hinayana Buddhism
    • lamaist - (Buddhism) an adherent of Lamaism
    • tantrist - an adherent of Tantrism
    • jainist - a believer in Jainism
    • shintoist - a believer in Shintoism
    • rasta, rastafarian - follower of Rastafarianism
    • mithraist - adherent of Mithraism
    • zoroastrian - follower of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism
    • absolutist - one who advocates absolutism
    • amoralist - someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid
    • animist - one who accepts the doctrine of animism
    • antinomian - a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism
    • apostle - (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel
    • aristotelean, aristotelian, peripatetic - a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism
    • bahai - a teacher of or believer in Bahaism
    • tao, taoist - an adherent of any branch of Taoism
    • clericalist - one who advocates clericalism
    • donatist - an adherent of Donatism
    • druse, druze - an adherent of an esoteric monotheistic religious sect living in the relative security of the mountains of Syria and Lebanon who believes that Al-hakim was an incarnation of God
    • dualist - an adherent of dualism
    • hussite - an adherent of the religious reforms of John Huss
    • ismaili, ismailian - an adherent of Ismailism; a member of the Ismaili branch of Shiism
    • lutheran - follower of Lutheranism
    • mahdist - an adherent of Mahdism
    • manichaean, manichean, manichee - an adherent of Manichaeism
    • monophysite - an adherent of Monophysitism
    • neoplatonist - an adherent of Neoplatonism
    • diabolist, satanist - an adherent of Satan or Satanism
    • sikh - an adherent of Sikhism
    • socinian - an adherent of the teachings of Socinus; a Christian who rejects the divinity of Christ and the Trinity and original sin; influenced the development of Unitarian theology
    • totalitarian - an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
    • unitarian - adherent of Unitarianism
    • trinitarian - adherent of Trinitarianism
    • arminian - adherent of Arminianism
    • votary - a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity
    • fundamentalist - an adherent of fundamentalist principles
    specific instances: baruch - a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah
    same as: disciple
Adjective
  1. Sticking fast (synset 300053272)
    similar to: adhesive - tending to adhere

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