Adherents
[əd'hɪərənts]
Examples
- In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The place had no other adherents. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- During the progress of the pestilence he had entered upon various schemes, by which to acquire adherents and power. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Each antagonist was weakened by moderate adherents who did not want to go too far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their successors have spread throughout the whole world, and number to-day some thirty or forty million of adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If they did not make very many converts, at least they made sceptics among the adherents of the older faiths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ammonites and Moabites became adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ministry that made the act, and all their adherents, call for vengeance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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