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fundamentalist

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1. fundamentalist - Noun

2. fundamentalist - Adjective

Meaning

a supporter of fundamentalism

an adherent of fundamentalist principles

of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents

of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism

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We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur. David Cross

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization. Daniel Pipes

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. James D. Watson

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution. Jerry Coyne

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks. Nadine Gordimer

To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can. Peter Greenaway

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