What is "religionist"

Usage examples of "religionist".

The commons, alarmed at the number and insolence of those religionists, desired the king, in an address, to remove by proclamation all papists and nonjurors from the city of London and parts adjacent, and put the laws in execution against them, that the wicked designs they were always hatching might be effectually disappointed.

They thought, that had the bigoted religionists been able to get their heavenly charter recognized, the presbyters would soon become more dangerous to the magistrate than had ever been the prelatical clergy.

The king had suffered so much in his reputation by his complaisance to the presbyterians of Scotland, and was so displeased with the conduct of that stubborn sect of religionists, that he thought proper to admit some prelatists into the administration.

England is a money-making country, and money-making is an effeminate pursuit, therefore all sedentary and spoony sins, like covetousness, slander, bigotry, and self-conceit, are to be cockered and plastered over, while the more masculine vices, and novices also, are mercilessly hunted down by your cold-blooded, softhanded religionists.

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, and the chief justice, Sir Matthew Hale, two worthy patriots, to put an end to those severities under which these religionists had so long labored.

These pretended religionists are really a kind of superstitious atheists, and acknowledge no being, that corresponds to our idea of a deity.

And taken in a few lukewarm religionists and closet hedonists for good measure.

Rather than relinquish this propensity to adulation, religionists, in all ages, have involved themselves in the greatest absurdities and contradictions.

Among idolaters, the words may be false, and belie the secret opinion: But among more exalted religionists, the opinion itself contracts a kind of falsehood, and belies the inward sentiment.

I am insensitive to the feelings of religionists, or perhaps even anxious to make them seem ridiculous.

I don consider them true religionists, however, and I am careful to point out that they disgrace religion, and are a greater danger to honest religion than to science.

In this case, the religionists disarm the Space Force, the Skagas rob them, and the guerrillas kill them.

This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.

It caused so much trouble from religionists because it takes the gloss off one of their favourite arguments, the argument from design.

He was a trader, a man of learning, a self-taught Hebraist, a strong religionist, and of as sound a mind as Don Quixot in whatever did not touch his religious chivalry.