Both Uses of
adherent
in
1984 by Orwell
- It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.†
p. 10..4 *
- This doctrine, of course, had always had its adherents, but in the manner in which it was now put forward there was a significant change.†
p. 202..8
Definition:
-
(adherent) someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine