true believer

noun

|Updated on: 13 Aug 2018

Examples: true believer in a Sentence

Definition of true believer

1 : a person who professes absolute belief in something

2 : a zealous supporter of a particular cause

Examples of true believer in a Sentence

it's impossible to argue with those true believers, as they think any counterevidence is proof of an evil conspiracy
true believers who fought the good fight even when it was out of fashion

Recent Examples of true believer from the Web

In the years after Repeal, true believers in banning alcohol waged an ever-lonelier crusade.

— stephanie schorow, BostonGlobe.com, "What should marijuana opponents do when their cause fails? A lesson from Prohibition," 23 June 2018
Montag works for a true believer in the cause, Captain Beatty (Shannon).

— nathan mattise, Ars Technica, "A perfect time for Fahrenheit 451 remakes; HBO’s version falls short," 18 May 2018
This would be seen as a huge betrayal by Brexit’s true believers.

— Bloomberg.com, "The Fall and Rise of Michael Gove, May's Brexit Bellwether," 27 Apr. 2018
In Tasmania, the idea gradually turned into a bit of a joke: the island’s very own Bigfoot, with its own zany, rivalrous fraternities of seekers and true believers.

— brooke jarvis, The New Yorker, "The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger," 16 Jan. 2012
His call for a show of Deadheads’ hands revealed that about half the folks in the audience were true believers.

— leah garchik, SFChronicle.com, "Filmmakers, historians making Ed Lee documentary," 28 June 2018
One of the true believers in Suffolk’s high-tech approach to construction is Edgardo Defortuna, president and CEO of Fortune International Group.

— rene rodriguez, miamiherald, "Could virtual reality change Miami’s real estate industry? | Miami Herald," 30 Mar. 2018
Reagan was an inspirational leader for the RTL movement, and George W. Bush was a true believer.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "Trump Is Already the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Best President Ever," 23 May 2018
Jordan's Montag is, initially, a true believer in his authoritarian mission.

— brian lowry, CNN, "'Fahrenheit 451' doesn't catch fire with HBO adaptation," 18 May 2018

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