religionist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=li=gion=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

religionist, n. 

 One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.  [1913 Webster]
"The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists."  [1913 Webster]
"It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

religionist

Brahman, Buddhist, Christian, God-fearing man, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, accepter, affecter, anthroposophist, believer, canter, canting hypocrite, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, communicant, convert, cultist, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, dissembler, dissimulator, fanatic, follower, formalist, good Christian, hypocrite, ist, lip server, lip worshiper, neophyte, pharisee, pietist, pious fraud, poser, proselyte, ranter, receiver, religioner, religious hypocrite, saint, sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, theist, truster, votary, whited sepulcher, zealot

ROGET THESAURUS

religionist

Impiety

N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.