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co-religionist

coreligionist \coreligionist\, co-religionist \co`-re*li"gion*ist\(-l?j"?n-?st), n. One of the same religion with another.

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co-religionist

n. A fellow follower of one's religion.

Usage examples of "co-religionist".

That did not include any of their co-religionists, who were probably working-class schlubs who walked or took public transportation.

The Copts destroyed the heathen temples and persecuted the worshipers of the old gods, they also slaughtered co-religionists who disagreed over subtle differences of dogma.

Most of them are my co-religionists and might accept this, but others are common criminals.

In the Sanctuary of the Scrutators they were admitted to a solemn reading of the sayings of the prophetess (two chanters and a dozen intoners), given instruction for those faithful to the Overmind, and supplied with the names of co-religionists on Hobb's Land.

The Jewish scholar David Levi forbade his co-religionists from even touching, much less reading, the book.

The old woman's co-religionists would help her to obtain for Adam fitting and Christian burial.

She and her dead friend and all their co-religionists had hated the woman, who, in defiance of her own Puritanic upbringing, had cast aside her friends and her home in order to throw herself in that vortex of pleasure, which her mother considered evil and infamous.

Soviet Moslems had the chance to mingle with their co-religionists from every corner of the world, and to reaffirm their sense of identity in Islam.