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Zealot

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Zealot meaning

One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic. | A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews. | A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.

Example sentences (20)

I just let Zealot be Zealot.

A religious zealot, Carmody uses the arrival of the eponymous mist to start doom saying about a vengeful god getting revenge on her small sinful hometown.

BREAKING: California's high-capacity magazine ban was just STRUCK DOWN by Judge Benitez, an extremist, right-wing zealot with no regard to human life.

It couldn’t come at a more critical time, especially now that Christian nationalist and anti-abortion zealot Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House.

It's very easy to play a zealot, whether deliberately or accidentally.

Mr. Rowe had become a member of North Korea’s Communist Party and “played the Communist zealot,” as he put it, while serving in the Korean War.

Phelps-Roper was raised in a community dominated by her zealot grandfather, whose virulent hatred for LGTBQ+ people drove the group’s and drew national attention.

That, plus the fact Smith is an unrepentant, unreformed zealot for the fossil-fuel industry, means renewables are gonna get treated like the oilpatch should be.

The president has repeatedly called the LFI an "extreme" movement, branding the party as equally zealot as Le Pen's.

This film is played absolutely straight-faced, and part of what makes it work is that even the zealot intruders can’t believe what they are being forced to do.

Brandon Prosser, of course, plays the role of ‘the Zealot’ in 2017’s 1.7-out-of-10-rated Razing Sera (thank you IMDB).

The Backfire Zealot has a stellar reputation among riders as a tough-to-beat budget board.

The Premier allowed his Cabinet to pander to their zealot bases with advanced counsel and assurance that it was going to happen anyway.

They say he is a religious zealot.

Well, look who just crawled out from underneath his anti-government zealot rock?

The anti-immigrant zealot John Kelly – once considered the only ‘adult’ in the White House when he was chief of staff – joined Caliburn’s board immediately after leaving government.

Al’Otaiba was a fanatically puritan, messianic zealot who believed he would usher in the regeneration of Islam in a welter of indiscriminate, apocalyptic bloodletting.

Fret Zealot will also be expanding to different instruments.

It would be easy to dismiss Jetton as a nutcase, a zealot or a conspiracy theorist.

These were her overachiever “zealot” years that the press made hay with.