Word Meanings - TRADITIONALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

ADVOCATE
advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
BELIEVER
One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom
ADVOCATESHIP
Office or duty of an advocate.
TRADITIONALISM
A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.
TRADITIONER; TRADITIONIST
One who adheres to tradition.
UNBELIEVER
1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. 2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person;
DISBELIEVER
One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.
SUBADVOCATE
An under or subordinate advocate.
MISBELIEVER
One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.