adherent vs atheist

adherent

noun
  • A person who has membership in some group, association or religion. 

adj
  • Adhesive, sticking to something. 

  • Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something. 

  • Attaching or pressing against a different organ. 

atheist

noun
  • A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods) 

  • A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity. 

  • A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities. 

  • A person who does not believe in deities. 

  • A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief). 

  • A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist). 

verb
  • To make someone an atheist. 

adj
  • Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic. 

How often have the words adherent and atheist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )