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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zealot \Zeal"ot\, n. [F. z['e]lote, L. zelotes, Gr ?. See
{Zeal}.]
One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause and
pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially,
one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one
absorbed in devotion to anything an enthusiast; a fanatical
partisan.
Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array
against zealots for the other --Sir J.
Stephen.
In Ayrshire, Clydesdale, Nithisdale Annandale, every
parish was visited by these turbulent zealots.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
zealot
n : a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn: {partisan}]
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