English > religious person: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who manifests devotion to a deity. |
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| Instances | Eddy, Mary Baker Eddy, Mary Morse Baker Eddy | founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) |
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| Fox, George Fox | English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691) |
| Narrower | Buddhist | One who follows the teachings of Buddha |
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| Christian | A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination |
| Hindu, Hindoo | A person who adheres to Hinduism |
| Mandaean, Mandean | A member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah |
| Moonie | An often derogatory term for a member of the Unification Church |
| Muslim, Moslem | A believer in or follower of Islam |
| Nazarene, Ebionite | A member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah |
| Parsee, Parsi | A member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin |
| Sabbatarian | One who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism) |
| abstainer, ascetic | someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline / discipline |
| agnostic | A person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) |
| anointer | One who anoints as a religious ceremony |
| believer, worshiper, worshipper | A person who has religious faith |
| celibate | An unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity |
| churchgoer, church member | A religious person who goes to church regularly |
| coreligionist | someone having the same religion as another person |
| missionary, missioner | someone sent on a mission / mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country |
| non-Catholic | A religious person who is not a Catholic |
| novitiate, novice | someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows |
| oblate | A lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life |
| pagan | A person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew) |
| penitent | (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) |
| prayer, supplicant | someone who prays to God |
| prophet | someone who speaks by divine inspiration |
| religionist | A person addicted to religion or a religious zealot |
| religious | A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience |
| religious leader | leader of a religious order |
| sacrificer | A religious person who offers up a sacrifice |
| tritheist | someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Opposite | nonreligious person | A person who does not manifest devotion to a deity |
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| Spanish | persona religiosa |
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| Catalan | persona religiosa |
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