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believer
[ bih-leev-er ]
noun
- someone who has confidence in the truth, existence, or reliability of something:
I am a firm believer that evolution happened the way that evolutionary biologists describe.
The team’s offensive coordinator is a big believer in the run game versus the passing game.
- someone who has or professes faith in something, especially a religion:
The church has grown from a handful of believers, meeting in the pastor’s living room, to a congregation now in excess of 1,000.
Other Words From
- pre-be·liev·er noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of believer1
Example Sentences
He's also a big believer that "demons" are everywhere, invisibly pulling the strings wherever progressivism or secularism are advanced or protected.
He was a true believer in the British Empire, and also an Irishman by birth who was all too conscious of its abundant internal contradictions.
That was the day the Dodgers became believers.
Riley can be applauded for his developing a never-give-up culture, but he doesn’t have many believers outside of his own locker room.
"I don't see them as evangelical believers," he says.
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