D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Religionist

· Re·li·gion·ist · IPA /riːlˈɪdʒənɪst/
01 n. One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
  1. 1.
    One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
    “The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists.” — Palfrey.
    “It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodo� religionists, was to be scourged out of the town.” Hawthorne.