n. One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodo&unr_; religionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]