Zealot
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English
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ËzÉlÉt/ (plural /ËzÉlÉts/)
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Noun
zealot (plural zealots)
- one who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic
- a member of the Zealot movement
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Quotations
- 1733: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right — Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle III, 1733pl:zealot