Fundamentalist can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.
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| fundamentalist - of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism | ||
Noun |
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| fundamentalist - a supporter of fundamentalism |
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| 1. | adj. | Musharraf held elections in October of 2002, in which center-right parties did well, but in which nearly 20 percent of parliament seats went to the fundamentalist religious party coalition, MMA. | |
| 2. | adj. | An Iraq in which armed fundamentalist and nationalist militias proliferate is inevitably a security worry for Israel. | |
| 3. | adj. | The recent elections in Iraq were dominated by an amalgam of religiously fundamentalist Shi'ite organizations, principally the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). | |
| 4. | adj. | Both Dawa and SCIRI have umbilical connections to the fundamentalist Shi'ite leadership in Iran that go back decades. | |
| 5. | adj. | On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees. | |
| 6. | adj. | Once more, fundamentalist ideologies are opposed to great historical advances. | |
| 7. | adj. | The problem with fundamentalists insisting on a literal interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of words change. A prime example is 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'. A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the shit out of your child or he will become rotten', as many fundamentalist parents seem to believe. | |
| 8. | adj. | You can't reason with a fundamentalist, regardless of whether they're a Christian or an atheist. | |
| 9. | adj. | Tom is a fundamentalist. |
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| Musharraf held elections in October of 2002, in which center-right parties did well, but in which nearly 20 percent of parliament seats went to the fundamentalist religious party coalition, MMA. |
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| An Iraq in which armed fundamentalist and nationalist militias proliferate is inevitably a security worry for Israel. |
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| The recent elections in Iraq were dominated by an amalgam of religiously fundamentalist Shi'ite organizations, principally the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). |
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| Both Dawa and SCIRI have umbilical connections to the fundamentalist Shi'ite leadership in Iran that go back decades. |
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| On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees. | |
| Once more, fundamentalist ideologies are opposed to great historical advances. | |
| The problem with fundamentalists insisting on a literal interpretation of the Bible is that the meaning of words change. A prime example is 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'. A rod was a stick used by shepherds to guide their sheep to go in the desired direction. Shepherds did not use it to beat their sheep. The proper translation of the saying is 'Give your child guidance, or they will go astray.' It does not mean 'Beat the shit out of your child or he will become rotten', as many fundamentalist parents seem to believe. | |
| You can't reason with a fundamentalist, regardless of whether they're a Christian or an atheist. | |
| Tom is a fundamentalist. | |