religionist Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot

WordNet

Re*li"gion*ist noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913