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Definition
someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine
- 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.Chapter 11 (64% in)
- I have fought in defence of them; and above eight hundred of my adherents have been hanged, drawn, and quartered.Chapter 26 (64% in)
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