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Example sentences for "coreligionists"

Lexicographically close words:
cordwainer; cordwainers; cordwood; core; cored; corer; cores; coriaceous; coriander; corium
  1. In all probability the Christians under Moslem rule were not worse off than their coreligionists in Galicia and Leon.

  2. A reformer seems even to have arisen, who wished to persuade his coreligionists to eat the flesh of sows, though not of pigs or boars.

  3. They were even somewhat indifferent to the cause of their coreligionists in the North, and the attempts which Pelayo and his successors made to induce them to rise in concert with their brethren met with but scant success.

  4. Zacharias Frankel had developed fruitful activity in connection with the removal of the political and civil disabilities, especially with regard to oaths, under which his coreligionists in Saxony were laboring.

  5. But his greatest achievement, one that cannot be rated sufficiently high, is that of having procured a hearing with all strata of his coreligionists by means of his charming, easy style.

  6. Like his coreligionists in every generation since the days of George Fox and William Penn, Whittier is "right on all points" relating to social and religious reform.

  7. If in no other way, his memory will be perpetuated among his coreligionists by the hymns that bear his name.

  8. Lone Sahib's coreligionists found that meaning in it; but their translation was refined and full of four-syllable words.

  9. But the coreligionists only ran away the faster, and soon the courageous caid, led away by their example, followed them.

  10. Civil wars between the nobles and the crown continued, and many of the former joined with Moslem Almansor in his victorious campaigns against their coreligionists and their king.

  11. More important, perhaps, was a great conflict with Granada and the Benimerines of Morocco, who once more tried to emulate the successes of their coreligionists of the eighth century.

  12. His pious soul can find no rest with the view before him of hundreds and thousands of his coreligionists sunk deep in the degrading practices of the heathen around.

  13. Those who strove to enlighten their benighted coreligionists or disseminate European culture among them, were called Maskilim.

  14. He could not forgive the German rabbis and Russian Maskilim for presuming to "dictate" to their coreligionists what to select and what to reject in matters religious.

  15. For those who remained behind their new coreligionists provided through collections made for that purpose in Russia and in Germany.

  16. As their pious coreligionists deemed it the universal duty to be well-versed in the Talmud, so the Maskilim thought it incumbent upon everybody to be highly cultured.

  17. In their despair, the Lithuanian Jews turned to their coreligionists in Germany, and implored their assistance in eradicating, or at least suppressing, the threatened invasion.

  18. When, however, he returned to Damascus for the second time, and his coreligionists had acquired greater confidence in him, he could indulge his love of proselytism.

  19. They seem to hint that even in the midst of Christianity there was great dissension, and that some who were eager for the cause of liberty, reported their more indifferent coreligionists with much zeal to the Jewish authorities.

  20. Before his death, Abayi heard of the cruel persecutions to which his coreligionists in Judaea were subjected under Constantius.

  21. In the initial stage of Lilienthal's campaign, public-minded Jews of Western Europe were inclined to believe that a happy era was dawning upon their coreligionists in Russia.

  22. In these circumstances the Jewish members were forced, as a last resort, to defend the interests of their coreligionists in writing, by submitting memoranda and separate opinions.

  23. He was appointed instructor of Hebrew at a Greek-Orthodox seminary and entrusted with the task of finding ways to remove the difficulties placed by the Jews in the path of their coreligionists intending to go over to Christianity.

  24. In strange contrast with these Roumanian Jews was the Arab Jew who acted as interpreter—a stout, handsome man, in Oriental garb, as unlike his European coreligionists as the fellahin themselves.

  25. The experience and example of their coreligionists at Bukeia would make the neighbourhood of that place a desirable locality for a colony.

  26. He had a profound contempt for his coreligionists of Dalieh and Esfia.

  27. The former class were weary of war and wanted to return to their homes and were in favor of peace and inclined to make their own terms, even to the extent of ignoring the claims of their coreligionists of the towns.

  28. But communication between the Protestant coreligionists was prevented by the way in which the Catholic troops were disposed.

  29. The success of the Dutch would have emboldened their French coreligionists to renew the struggle with some hope of success.

  30. On the other hand, their civil disabilities and oppression have led them to cling more closely to the Bible and their religious lore than was customary among their coreligionists in other lands.

  31. One could not expect that in descending to speak to his coreligionists in their own tongue, he would return to the more primitive methods of the popular bard.

  32. The relatives of the last khagan fled, according to tradition, to their coreligionists in Spain.

  33. Berek's appeal to his coreligionists was published in the official "Gazette" of Warsaw on October 1.

  34. A Hebrew term designating public-spirited Jews who defend the interests of their coreligionists before the Government.

  35. In any event Michael was more useful to his coreligionists than his brother Abraham Yosefovich, who, likewise a tax-farmer, sacrificed his Judaism for the sake of a successful career.

  36. The chosen elders are recognized as the lawful officials and judges of their coreligionists in a given locality.

  37. A contemporary witness narrates that, in 1698, during Peter's stay in Holland, the Jews of Amsterdam requested the burgomaster Witsen to petition the Tzar concerning the admission of their coreligionists into Russia.

  38. According to the Russian chroniclers, the originator of this heresy was the learned Jew Skharia (Zechariah), who had emigrated with a number of coreligionists from Kiev to the ancient Russian city of Novgorod.

  39. The fancy of later Christian writers that Hadrian regarded their coreligionists with special consideration seems founded on misconception.

  40. It was difficult for well-descended Jews not to entertain some contempt for their coreligionists who were less noble.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coreligionists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.