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64 words match “BELIEVER”

BELIEVER n. 3 definitions
the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.
DISBELIEVER n.
One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.
MISBELIEVER n.
One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.
UNBELIEVER n. 2 definitions
A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.
ADHERENT n.
e who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
ANATHEMA n.
ication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. Priestley.
ANIMALCULIST n.
A believer in the theory of animalculism.
ANTITHEIST n.
A disbeliever in the existence of God.
APOTACTITE n.
One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
BABIST n.
A believer in Babism.
BAPTIST n.
of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
BIBLIOLATER; BIBLIOLATRIST n.
A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.
BIOGENIST n.
A believer in the theory of biogenesis.
CALVINIST n.
A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST n.
A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.
CHRISTIANITY n.
The body of Christian believers. [Obs.] To Walys fled the christianitee Of olde Britons. Chaucer.
CHURCH n. 2 definitions
A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.
COMFORTER n.
The Holy Spirit, -- reffering to his office of comforting believers. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26.
DEGENERATIONIST n.
A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
DEMONIST n.
A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.
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