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Hayashi began as a student of Buddhism but became a devoted adherent of Neo-Confucianism and a bitter opponent of Buddhism.
The most outstanding figure of the 18th-century Jewish Enlightenment was the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729 86), a devoted adherent of traditional Judaism who turned away from the historic Jewish preoccupation with the Talmud and its literature to the intellectual world of the European Enlightenment.
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He remains a devoted disciple.
In total, it contains more than two hours of traditional carols, instrumentals and songs penned by Stevens himself, which even the most devoted adherent of Yuletide-themed entertainment (should such a person actually exist outside of high security hospitals) might consider to be pushing it.
One has millions of devoted adherents, a doctrine of clean-cut conformity and an unstoppable, culture-changing momentum; the other is communist China.
The tweet's cutesy condescension notwithstanding, it's true that the skin-care craze, and the Ordinary in particular, has a way of turning its most devoted adherents into amateur scientists.
The real paradox here is that the one-drop rule succeeded all too well, so much so that its most devoted adherents today are African-Americans, in spite of its devastating role in their own history of exclusion.
During the architectural debates of the nineteen-eighties, when the field fractured into the "Whites" (devoted adherents of stripped-down, high-minded modernism) and the "Grays" (the renegade postmodernists, playfully mixing it up with ornament and pastiche), Stern was one of the latter camp's most prominent members.
If one retreats to its early use in the English language, then we find that as a noun partisan appears as early as the 16th century as the OED reads: "An adherent or proponent of a party, cause, person, etc.; esp. a devoted or zealous supporter; in early use esp.
A devoted husband.
He lost a devoted reader.
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