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Definition
someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrineMore 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
- Two were tears from someone trying to remove an adherent cancerous mass.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- The two outcasts shaved off their hair, and soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- 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