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a fervent and even militant proponent of something

an animal rights zealot who values animals above people

To Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of Heaven, which is "within you."
Sinclair, Upton -- The Jungle
"Not so," replied the immitigable zealot.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
To Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of Heaven, which is "within you."
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Boston Corbett, in his own way, is as much a zealot as Booth.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
"That crossed my mind," said Krupkin, his eyes suddenly glass-cold, his expression that of an unrelenting zealot.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
"No!" he cried, his voice lower, hoarser and more normal, sinking from the tone of a zealot to the tone of an overbearing executive.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Instantly, for all but the zealots like Gottlieb, Terry, Martin, and the bio-physics assistant, research was halted.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Jace had never had that—he had recklessness, and the anarchic joy of imagined self-annihilation, but he was not a zealot.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
The Chinese Communist Party leaders themselves were sufficiently embarrassed by Qian's zealotry that they fired him a year later.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Newman eyed his interlocutress and satisfied himself that she was not a gossip, but a zealot; she looked anxious, appealing, discreet.
Henry James -- The American
The Professor was also a practicing Catholic, though hardly a zealot.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
It is the language of your people, but as it was spoken and written long ago, and of a very particular dialect: that of the zealot Tosk.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
They saved the bulk of their contempt and zealotry for the young, especially the poor women.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
The fusion of the two strong egotisms, Eliza's inbrooding and Gant's expanding outward, made of him a fanatical zealot in the religion of Chance.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
She was a small, wiry woman with the eyes of a zealot and though pushing forty, wore her hair in two long plaits.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
His eyes shine with the fervor of a religious zealot, the look of a street-corner crazy preacher, except this crazy holds the fate of the world in his hands.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
I was married to a zealot for years.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
"—and she followed Heller like a zealot, "yes, literally, like a zealot."
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

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