#adherent

• Adherent — A person who fully adheres to a doctrine, or to a scientific, philosophical, political, or religious theory, becoming an active supporter and propagator of it; as an adjective, it describes the state of ideological or intellectual attachment to a structured set of values or principles. The term defines the social identity and doctrinal position of an individual within a current of thought.
• Adherent — A female person who fully adheres to a doctrine, a cultural, political, or religious movement, or a scientific theory, becoming its active supporter and promoter. In a broad sense, the structural term describes a woman attached to an idea or a discipline, which she practices or defends with firm conviction within social interactions.
• Adherent — Sticking, clinging, or remaining tightly fixed to a surface through the effect of molecular attraction forces or a binder; also, it designates a person who joins an association, organization, or who supports a certain doctrine or social movement. In a structural sense, it describes the property of an element to ensure optimal friction or the state of an individual formally integrated into an interest group.
• Adherent — The feminine form for objects or persons that adhere; it can also represent a rare regional or textual variation for adhesion (a pathological scar tissue that abnormally joins two internal organs). In the context of ideological movements, it represents a woman who actively supports, adopts, and promotes a specific set of cultural or political principles.
• Antinomian — A person who adheres to the principles of antinomism or who maintains that the moral law and external norms are not binding for those saved through faith; in an adjective sense, it describes an idea, writing, or group exhibiting an attitude of rejection toward the authority of traditional laws.