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someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine
- By Bonaparte, or, at least, by his adherents.Chapters 9-10 (48% in)
- ...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."Chapters 5-6 (69% in)
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