coreligionistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From co- +‎ religionist.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəʊɹɪˈlɪdʒənɪst/

名詞

co-religionist (plural co-religionists)

1. A fellow follower of one's religion.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 499:

     From the mid-sixteenth century, Western Christians – Protestants as well as Roman Catholics, thanks to the great split of the Reformation – interested themselves afresh in their afflicted co-religionists in the East.

   • 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     Moreover, the greater charitability of religious people in studies is accounted for by their contributing more to coreligionists, and the bulk of the charitability of highly religious people in the real world consists of charity to their own group.

同意語

• co-believer
• co-religionary