Both Uses of
adherent
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- …without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; "but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the stanchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator."†
Chpt 5-6
- By Bonaparte, or, at least, by his adherents.†
Chpt 9-10 *
Definition:
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(adherent) someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine