What's the difference between irreligionist and religionist?
Irreligionist
Definition:
(n.) One who is irreligious.
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Religionist
Definition:
(n.) One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a reminder that the vast proportion of casualties of terrorism are Muslims killed by co-religionists.
(2) The religionists haven't helped themselves, though; surely the new atheism is in part a reaction to the rise of, say, Islamic extremism?
(3) The expressed intention of his fatwa was to defend and strengthen the clergy, and one of its effects in Britain has been to create a kind of pseudo-clergy, a class of Islamist intellectuals and militants who presume to speak not just for their co-religionists in Britain but 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide.
(4) The US backed prime minister Nouri al-Maliki opted to instead privilege his Shia co-religionists and later, particularly after US forces withdrew in 2011, himself.
(5) Muslims the world over, which Isis views (wrongly) as a sea of potential recruits, could be forgiven for viewing the Republican rhetoric as a declaration of holy war against their co-religionists.
(6) Cairo's Al-Ahram newspaper chided his "politically motivated" 1979 edict forbidding Egyptian Christians from visiting co-religionists in Jerusalem.
(7) And if it has been Hezbollah's overt intervention in the fighting in Qusair that has set the alarm bells ringing ever more loudly, it is worth noting that the Hezbollah's interest in Syria has less to do with the fate of its Alawite co-religionists and everything to do with its own survival and interests.
(8) Other minority groups, such as Kurds, Alawis and Christians, have been mostly left to their own devices or are helped by co-religionists.
(9) As leaders and senior figures of faith communities, we urge our co-religionists and others to think about the implications of a Leave vote for the things about which we are most passionate.
(10) [Christians] are seen as legitimate targets for what they perceive as actions of their co-religionists.
(11) During the Iran-Iraq war , the Ba'athist government feared that Iraqi Shias would sympathise with their co-religionists in Iran and unleashed waves of repression against them.
(12) They add: “As leaders and senior figures of faith communities, we urge our co-religionists and others to think about the implications of a Leave vote for the things about which we are most passionate.
(13) Baroness Cumberlege is treasured by co-religionists as "a distinguished Catholic politician".
(14) In disparaging the potential "bad deal" with Iran, Netanyahu went beyond mere criticism and said to his co-religionists: We are the Jewish state.
(15) To his supporters, whose numbers peaked in the few years after the attacks of 11 September 2001 in America that he masterminded, he was a visionary leader fighting both western aggression against Muslims and his co-religionists' lack of faith and rigour.