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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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