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religionist

  • a word derived from religionism.
    religionism
    noun
    excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.

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Lane’s book will surely be requisite reading for historians who strive to give us a fuller perspective on the career and impact of this unusual American religionist.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2016

Resembling greatly a goateed New England preacher, he is a shrewd, pragmatic religionist, a devout member of the Congre gational & Christian Churches.

From Time Magazine Archive

No student demonstrator am I, nor do I speak from the platform of professor, nor yet as religionist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Born Marcilino Manuel Graca in Portugal, "Daddy" Grace is a tall, dark, long-haired religionist who believes in the orthodox Lord, preaches a Pentecostal faith with some refinements of his own invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

From The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer