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Another word for disciple

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Noun

  1. One who supports and adheres to another

    See also:

    precede

    over

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Another word for disciple

Noun

  1. A follower

    See also:

    follower

  2. A follower of Christ; usually capitalized

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Sentence Examples

  • In the case of Lamennais the disciple outstripped the master.

  • His life was written by his disciple Elias, and also by John of Asia.

  • Grattan's political philosophy was allied to that of Edmund Burke; Tone was a disciple of Danton and Thomas Paine.

  • Pollio the Pharisee and Sameas his disciple were in special honour with him, Josephus says, when he re-entered Jerusalem and put to death the leaders of the faction of Antigonus.

  • They have been regarded as a fiction invented later by the enemies of Epicureanism, with the view of discrediting the most powerful work ever produced by any disciple of that sect.

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