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Definition

someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine

More rarely, adherent can denote something that is sticky such as glue.

It numbered thirty million of adherents, and it cast eight million votes.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

He was replaced by one Jan Hinckart, Lord of Ohain, a loyal adherent of Orange.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
But it is full of indignation to-night after undergoing the ordeal of consigning to the tomb the remains of a faithful, a zealous, a devoted adherent.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Alone, scared, killing before someone can kill him, a firm adherent to the first rule, until he broke it by letting me go and then bringing me back.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
The two outcasts shaved off their hair, and soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
Two were tears from someone trying to remove an adherent cancerous mass.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
All the world was there, artists, journalists, professors, business men, and of course every adherent of pleasure in the town.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
I gave no credence to the ideology of Garveyism; it was, rather, the emotional dynamics of its adherents that evoked my admiration.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
One reason for that is the suggestion made by some of its churches that God will reward adherents with riches in this life.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
A sprinkling of applause greeted the illusion, gathering adherents from all parts of the auditorium until it reached its short crescendo and died away.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
Though, by this course, neither one aim nor the other could be attained, yet it seemed best to the adherents of this third party.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
But the judge was an adherent of proper protocol and wanted that to show in the record.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
Very early in my observations I discovered that they led a well-regulated life, although they were not slavish adherents to fixed schedules.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
You are aware that I am the adherent of no organized religion much less of any philosophy built into a system.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
He returns, in fine, to punish as a rebel every adherent of his brother Prince John.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
After this he awaited an opportunity to crush the Orsini, having scattered the adherents of the Colonna house.
Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
Each sect had its adherents, though neither was regularly organized and disciplined.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
The place had no other adherents.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Dr. Sprague, the rugged and weighty, was, as every one had foreseen, an adherent of Mr. Farebrother.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
The nobles hated Joazar, the high-priest; the Separatists, on the other hand, were his zealous adherents.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur

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