Wiktionary
n. 1 (context ecclesiastical English) A strict follower of a religious doctrine. 2 (context idiomatic English) One who sticks to one's dogma or beliefs irrespective of the facts (see true believer syndrome).
Wikipedia
True believer(s) or The True Believer may refer to:
- One who strictly adheres to the tenets of a particular religious doctrine
- By extension, one who is strongly attached to a particular belief
- True-believer syndrome, a term for the irrational persistence of some untenable belief
- In the philosophy of Daniel Dennett, a system whose behavior is predictable via the intentional stance
True Believer (also released as Fighting Justice) is a 1989 American courtroom drama written by Wesley Strick, directed by Joseph Ruben, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey, Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith.
The film is loosely based on an investigative series of articles written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist K. W. Lee on the conviction of immigrant Chol Soo Lee for a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gangland murder. The news coverage led to a new trial, eventual acquittal and release of the prisoner from San Quentin's Death Row. Screenwriter Wesley Strick based the character of Eddie Dodd on real-life Bay Area defense attorney Tony Serra.
True Believer is an album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1995.
True Believer is an Australian country music album by Troy Cassar-Daley, released in January 1997.
Around the album's release, Troy toured with LeAnn Rimes and by himself. At the 1998 Country Music Awards in Tamworth, Troy won three Gold Guitars – Best Male Vocal for his single "Little Things", Album of the Year for True Believer and Best Video for "Little Things".
True Believer is the title of a compilation album released in 2003 by the American country music band Sawyer Brown. It comprises ten religiously-themed songs: seven from their previous albums, and three newly recorded tracks. No singles were released from it.
"True Believer" is a song recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It was released in July 1993 as the first single and title track from the album True Believer. The song reached #30 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by John Hiatt.
True Believer is the twenty-first studio album by country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 1993 his first for Liberty Records. The album produced two singles, the title track, which peaked at #30 on country charts and "Better Off With the Blues," which did not chart.
The album did not chart, his first to do so since his 1971 self-named debut album. Allmusic praised the title track, stating that the record would have been one "to reckon with" if the rest of the tracks "had the energy" of the title song.
True Believer is a verse novel for young adults, written by Virginia Euwer Wolff and published by Atheneum Books in 2001. It has been published as an audiobook read by Heather Alicia Simms, and translated into Chinese, German, Italian, and Japanese. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and was named a Michael L. Printz Honor book.
A review in Publishers Weekly observed that Wolff writes with "delicacy and sensitivity".
True Believer is a 2005 romance novel written by American author Nicholas Sparks.
"True Believer" is a song written by E-Type and Savan Kotecha, and recorded by E-Type on the album Eurotopia. It was originally played over radio on 11 May 2007 at the RIX Morronzoo programme. As a newcomer it directly entered 5th position at Trackslistan at Sveriges Radio P3. On 24 May 2007 it entered the first position at the Swedish singles chart, a position it held for one week. In Finland, it peaked at No. 3 in the Finnish singles chart
On 10 June 2007, it received a Svensktoppen test, but failed to enter chart.
In August 2007, it was certified gold in Sweden.
Usage examples of "true believer".
You said a true believer would be given the grace and courage to stand for his faith in the face of the blade.
You said a true believer would he given the grace and courage to stand for his faith in the face of the blade.
An old priest in the silver skull-bracers of a True Believer peered out at me.
He knew immediately that he had never been a true believer and quickly turned his life over to God.
Allahs will would be accomplished, whatever a lone Believer might do-but a True Believer was more likely to have a beneficent fate mapped out than was a person of timorous faith.
As a True Believer, he could not even eat the flesh of the pig he had killed, since it was an unclean animal.
If anybody hears you who doesn't agree, you'll get charged with blasphemy and they'll send you to one of their conditioning clinics and you'll come back in six months or so a true believer ready to turn in your own daughters.