All 4 Uses of
adherent
in
Gone with the Wind
- "Clayton Wild Cats," "Fire Eaters," "North Georgia Hussars," "Zouaves," "The Inland Rifles" (although the Troop was to be armed with pistols, sabers and bowie knives, and not with rifles), "The Clayton Grays," "The Blood and Thunderers," "The Rough and Readys," all had their adherents.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and their neighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went off in the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and his hated troops with their orange cockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.†
Chpt 1.3
- But, questioned India's adherents, if Scarlett isn't guilty, where is Captain Butler?†
Chpt 5.55
- India's adherents bowed coldly and some few cut her openly.†
Chpt 5.55
Definition:
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(adherent) someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine