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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

religioner m

1. indefinite plural of religion

Swedish

Noun

religioner

1. indefinite plural of religion