religioner

English

Etymology

religion +‎ -er

Noun

religioner (plural religioners)

1. (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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

religioner m

1. indefinite plural of religion

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Swedish

Noun

religioner

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of religion