All 3 Uses of
adherent
in
Into the Wild
- McCandless's apparent sexual innocence, however, is a corollary of a personality type that our culture purports to admire, at least in the case of its more famous adherents.†
p. 66.3 *adherents = people who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine
- McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state.†
p. 28.8
- On the face of it, Bullhead City doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstoy, an ideologue who expressed nothing but contempt for the bourgeois trappings of mainstream America.†
p. 39.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(adherent) someone who holds to and spreads a belief or doctrine
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, adherent can denote something that is sticky such as glue.