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The term used in Christian Latin is credens, which is the present participle of the verb credere, "to believe". It means literally "believing [person]". In the plural (credentes) it's the equivalent of the English collective noun "the faithful".

There is also the word acceptor, literally "one who receives" but used, at least in pre-Classical times (e.g., by the playwright Titus Macchius Plautus), to mean "one who accepts [something] as true". This word does not have specifically religious connotations. However, it may be worth noting that acceptor suffered a change in Christian Latin, where it came to mean "one who favors [someone] unjustly".

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