The Only Use of
zealot
in
1984 by Orwell
- Some nosing zealot in the Ministry (a woman, probably: someone like the little sandy-haired woman or the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department) might start wondering why he had been writing during the lunch interval, why he had used an old-fashioned pen, what he had been writing — and then drop a hint in the appropriate quarter.†
p. 28..5
Definition:
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(zealot with a lowercase "z") a fervent and even militant proponent of something