(n.) One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
(n.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.
(n.) One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(4) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
(5) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(6) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(7) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(8) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(9) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
(10) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
(11) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(12) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(13) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(14) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(15) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(16) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(17) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(18) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(19) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(20) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
Devotee
Definition:
(n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabella was a devotee of 5-3-2 when he led Estudiantes to the title and the Copa Libertadores but the danger of using three central defenders against a lone centre-forward is that, with two spare men, one is left redundant.
(2) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .
(3) Brompton has fared well from the growing number of devotees.
(4) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
(5) The billionaire founder of Facebook has apologised to the website's 57 million devotees for its handling of a controversial advertising feature which has sparked furious protests about privacy.
(6) She will be sharing it with British devotees for three days from Sunday, when her European tour reaches London's Alexandra Palace.
(7) It was a extraordinary match, New Zealand the devotees of attack, forced to defend for all their worth.
(8) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
(9) Both solar power and hydrogen fuel cells have their devotees, and can certainly lift demonstrator aircraft off the ground – though in both cases the main application seems likely to be powering auxiliary systems rather than aircraft engines.
(10) What miracles, envisioned in the fevered imaginations of so many cultists and devotees, were not made manifest?
(11) The show has plenty of devotees (and people mocking it) on both sides of the pond, but Brits get to see the latest season months ahead of their American counterparts.
(12) Since journalist Tom Mueller revealed how more than 70% of the extra virgin olive oil sold in the world is fake , olive oil devotees have been seeking out authentic, 100% real olive oil.
(13) AC 12 June 1966: Andy Warhol's factory John Heilpern's visit to Andy Warhol's Factory yielded a fascinating portrait of the artist and his circle of devotees.
(14) A mixed crowd of senior citizens and vintage car devotees here for an al fresco auction slurp their tea and ice creams and quietly look on.
(15) Talk to those who devote their lives to the study of violent jihadism, reading Isis’s propaganda and interviewing its devotees, and a different picture emerges.
(16) Two decades after that appointment, Khamenei has become so powerful that the assembly’s role has diminished to a symbolic one with members acting as his devotees, stripped of all their supervisory power even though they are still being elected in public votes.
(17) It would be ironic if China’s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism’s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than western devotees of free markets.
(18) The vehicles made during a ramped-up final year of production in Solihull include tributes to the HUE 166, the original Series I model whose Birmingham area number plate devotees all recognise, with Defenders painted in that original shade of RAF surplus green.
(19) EA’s multiplayer first-person shooter franchise attracts a fanatical group of hardcore devotees, but at the same time, swarms of players find it too exacting and intimidating.
(20) Martins had, like the football fan he is, been at the opening game the night before and his respect for stickers is as wholehearted as that of any devotee.