Both Uses of
adherent
in
Candide
- Fifty sons of the Emperor Muley-Ismael[11] had each their adherents; this produced fifty civil wars, of blacks against blacks, and blacks against tawnies, and tawnies against tawnies, and mulattoes against mulattoes.†
Chpt 11 *
- I have fought in defence of them; and above eight hundred of my adherents have been hanged, drawn, and quartered.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(adherent) someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine