adherent

The politics and social views of modernism’s adherents aren’t always likable.

Eventually, many of Garrison’s adherents came to believe that slavery could only be defeated by force, and abandoned nonresistance.

The promise remains dazzling and deliciously diabolical enough for adherents to forget that deals with the devil always come with a hidden, inescapable price tag.

While universities need to change, the Administration’s overreach is likely to gain more decliners than adherents.

And so, when he uses martyr language to describe Kirk, his adherents latch on.