Believer
[bɪ'livɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who has religious faith.
(noun.) a supporter who accepts something as true.
Edited by Bradley--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- You are no believer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And if I do so, said the Templar, it concerns not thee, who art no believer in the blessed sign of our salvation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And the world if not a believer in the idea cannot be a philosopher, and must therefore be a persecutor of philosophers. Plato. The Republic.
- Think of all this and ask yourself whether the world is more likely to be a believer in the unity of the idea, or in the multiplicity of phenomena. Plato. The Republic.
- I am a great believer in the _mens sana in corpore sano_ theory, said the Demarch to Maurice, who sat beside him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He also insisted upon a future life, the fear of hell for the negligent and evil, and the reservation of paradise for the believer in the One God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But if he is not a believer in liberty, still less is he a lover of tyranny. Plato. The Republic.
- Bacon, as we shall amply see, was a firm believer in the study of the arts and occupations, and at th e same time retained his devotion to principles and abstract thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon's words seemed to leave unsaid: what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Moslem ranks were full of believers before whom shone victory or paradise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The peerage may have warmer worshippers and faithfuller believers than Mr. Tulkinghorn, after all, if everything were known. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text; for the words are these: 'that all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Typed by Brandon