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- noun Plural form of
correligionist .
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Miss Armstrong makes the case (which I agree with) that Islamic fundamentalists are just as heretical for traditional Islam as Christian fundamentalists are for traditional Christianity, so much so that the gulf between traditional or liberal members of one religion and their fundamentalist correligionists is almost as great (or moreso) than that between the various religions themselves.
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In 1733 three great Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania, numbering five hundred families each, sent messengers with an imploring petition to their correligionists at London and
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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The following corrections have been made to the text: page 32 -- people of England is of preëminent [original has preeminent] importance page 59 -- feared to violate the immunities of the church. "[ending quotation mark is missing in original] page 188 -- sent messengers with an imploring petition to their coreligionists [original has correligionists] at London and
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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