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zealot

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zeal·ot  (zlt)
n.
1.
a. One who is zealous, especially excessively so.
b. A fanatically committed person.
2. Zealot A member of a Jewish movement of the first century a.d. that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism.

[Middle English zelote, from Latin zlts, from Greek, from zlos, zeal.]

zealot [zel-lot]
Noun
a fanatic or an extreme enthusiast
zealotry n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.zealotZealot - a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first century who fought to the death against the Romans and who killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans
Jew, Hebrew, Israelite - a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
2.zealot - a fervent and even militant proponent of something
advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
doctrinaire, dogmatist - a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

zealot
Translations
zealot [ˈzɛlət] nfanático/a
zealot [ˈzɛlət] nfanatique m/f
zealot [ˈzɛlət] zeal nFanatiker(in) m(f)
zealot [ˈzɛlət] nzelota m/f


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Keen and dispassionate, with a genius for mercilessly cutting to the marrow of a proposition, Hall has at the same time been a zealot for the improvement and extension of telephone service.
Friends might have told her things, but she had few of her own age,-- Richmond being an awkward place to reach,--and, as it happened, the only girl she knew well was a religious zealot, who in the fervour of intimacy talked about God, and the best ways of taking up one's cross, a topic only fitfully interesting to one whose mind reached other stages at other times.
To Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of Heaven, which is "within you.
 
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