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adherent | American Dictionary

adherent
noun[ C ]
us/ədˈhɪər·ənt, æd-/
someone who strongly supports an idea, plan, person, etc.:
She has been an adherent of home schooling for years.

Examples of adherent

adherent
However, within less than a year, the movement was shattered, and its adherents either were ar rested or had f led the country.
Because identity was expressed in religious terms at the time, communities cherished a "confessional" identity, constructed by adherents and deconstructed by enemies.
The three socialist ideals were not only modified by the circumstances of their adherents, but also were transformed at various levels of their realization.
Different groups' orientations towards practice are quite different, and adherents have strong feelings regarding these differences.
Wilcher elects to take a chronological approach to his subject, thereby avoiding anachronistic assumptions about ' royalists' as adherents to a single, unchanging ideology.
Initially credit was treated with suspicion, before being gradually 'absorbed' and 'integrated' by adherents to the old morality.
What is more, the experimental methods used by the adherents of the two theories are commensurate with the functioning of the respective visual system.
Partisans of whole language tend to draw their support from functional linguists, whereas adherents of phonics get it from formalists.
Like other myths, it comforts only so long as its adherents believe it to be true.
Refutation is unnecessary; the premise collapses under the weight of its excessively numerous and various adherents.
Over the next two decades, the needed resources became available as conservatives founded intellectual institutions and gained additional adherents.
How does a movement discipline the youthful ' lumpens ' who are most likely to be its first adherents ?
Their adherents reacted with new modes of conflict resolution.
Core divisive issues revolve around fundamental assumptions of each statistical philosophy, even though adherents of both have long agreed on some issues.
As a result of the polarized nature of the debate, adherents of processual and postprocessual archaeology have tended to gravitate towards rather extreme positions.
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