Co-religionist

//kəʊɹɪˈlɪdʒənɪst// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fellow follower of one's religion.

    "From the mid-sixteenth century, Western Christians – Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, thanks to the great split of the Reformation – interested themselves afresh in their afflicted co-religionists in the East."

Synonyms

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co-believerco-religionary

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"From the mid-sixteenth century, Western Christians – Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, thanks to the great split of the Reformation – interested themselves afresh in their afflicted co-religionists in the East."

Etymology

From co- + religionist.

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