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PENTECOSTALIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any member of a Pentecostal religious body

Synonyms:

Pentecostal; Pentecostalist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Pentecostalist" is a kind of...):

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

Holonyms ("Pentecostalist" is a member of...):

Pentecostal religion (any fundamentalist Protestant Church that uses revivalistic methods to achieve experiences comparable to the Pentecostal experiences of the first Christian disciples)

Derivation:

pentecostalism (the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues)

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