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zealot


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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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