exponent vs ritualist

ritualist vs exponent

exponent and ritualist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exponent	Yes	No	No	No
ritualist	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ritualist is a hyponym of exponent; that is, ritualist is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than exponent:

exponent: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
ritualist: an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms

Other hyponyms of exponent include apologist, justifier, vindicator, commie, communist, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, populist, fascist, federalist, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, drumbeater, partisan, zealot, partitionist, Platonist, pro-lifer, presenter, sponsor, protectionist, republican, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separationist, separatist, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice, suffragist, admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, voice in the wilderness.

exponent (noun)	ritualist (noun)
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself	an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea	a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies
someone who expounds and interprets or explains

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