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religioner en · NOUN

Etymology

From religion + -er.

Meanings

1. (dated) A religious zealot; a religionist.
   • […] all at once, these long tresses would shrink up, and contract into the shortness that becomes a religioner. 1830, The National Magazine, volume 1, page 591:
   • The business of this Junta was to dispose of those Religioners who, having been driven from their cloisters (the edict said), were crying night and day before the throne of a terrible God to revenge the blood of their innocent brethren […] 1827, Robert Southey, History of the Peninsular War, volume 2, page 240:

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