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Webster 1913 Edition
Religioner
{
Re-li′gion-a-ry
,Re-li′gion-er
(-?r)
, } Noun.
A religionist.
[R.]
Definition 2024
religioner
religioner
English
Noun
religioner (plural religioners)
- (dated) A religious zealot; a religionist.
- 1827, Robert Southey, History of the Peninsular War (volume 2, page 240)
- The business of this Junta was to dispose of those Religioners who, having been driven from their cloisters (the edict said), were crying night and day before the throne of a terrible God to revenge the blood of their innocent brethren […]
- 1830, The National Magazine (volume 1, page 591)
- […] all at once, these long tresses would shrink up, and contract into the shortness that becomes a religioner.
- 1827, Robert Southey, History of the Peninsular War (volume 2, page 240)