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Definition of Adherents
1. adherent [n] - See also: adherent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adherents
Literary usage of Adherents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current (1901)
"... vols., 1843; George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, 4 vols., 1843-44; The
Pretenders and their adherents, 2 vols., 1846; Historical Memorials of London, ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1816)
"... the Pope and his adherents have most cruelly tyrannized over the Minds, and
tortured the Bodies of Men. VrE now proceed to the second branch of the ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"adherents in Connaught, &c., previously mentioned as having been sent to London
for William's inspection, after setting forth that " The Irish gentry, ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... with all his adherents, was exterminated by a conqueror, who seldom forgave
either the dead or the living ; like his predecessor Leo the ninth, ..."
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