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cultist

  • a word derived from cult.
  • a word derived from cultism.

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Tony Kabaka, a self-confessed "cultist" and member of the NBM, spent years working for the government in Benin, up until 2019.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2021

Calling someone else a cultist, ironically, can spare us from interrogating our own insularity.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2021

You could approach them as a connoisseur, a cultist.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2019

“She inspires a kind of cultist love that I don’t see other ingénues inspiring,” “Heathers” screenwriter Daniel Waters told the New York Times recently.

From Washington Post Jul. 20, 2016

Mr. Linderman is working on several books, including a couple on vintage sleaze and one on “a fraudulent faith healer, cultist and preacher from the 1920s.”

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2012