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[ US /ədˈhɪɹənt/ ]
[ UK /ɐdhˈi‍əɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. sticking fast
NOUN
  1. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another

How To Use adherent In A Sentence

  • Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • The adherents to the Peace Alliance had to undergo a serious reorientation in their political attitudes.
  • But Dominic Iglesias made effort to comfort him, speaking not uncheerfully, determining even to fight the fatigue and weakness which, as he could not but own, daily increased on him, if only for the sake of this faithful and simple adherent. The Far Horizon
  • The proposal is gaining more and more adherents.
  • There is also a certain symmetry between the two species, for the adherents of a politicised religion, like soldiers in an army, are in a permanent state of combat and vigilance.
  • Ironically, a nation of know-nothings is secretly guided by adherents of an esoteric political tradition rooted in a grand conversation among philosophers ranging from ancient Greece to Weimar Germany.
  • a small set of men, some of whom are possessed of great ability and have accomplished much, but as a religion in any adequate sense of the word positivism will be admitted a failure by its most sincere adherents. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy
  • This phrase is a clue, becoming a means whereby adherents of the same movement can be identified.
  • Does it propose to welcome these new adherents or sympathizers by yelling in the tones of that great bigmouth?
  • It provides a framework by which adherents respond to events and developments.
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