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zealot
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zealot with a lowercase "z"

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  • She was a small, wiry woman with the eyes of a zealot and though pushing forty, wore her hair in two long plaits.†  (source)
  • I have been a Catholic, a revelationist, a neo-Marxist, an interface zealot, a Bound Shaker, a satanist, a bishop in the Church of Jake's Nada, and a dues-paying subscriber to the Assured Reincarnation Institute.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • She rocked his head; he stared at her with the blank, shiny eyes of the zealot.†  (source)
  • I make no claims to have a life in Christ, or with Christ—and certainly not for Christ, which I've heard some zealots claim.†  (source)
  • They saved the bulk of their contempt and zealotry for the young, especially the poor women.†  (source)
  • You're not a scholar, not even a student, only a zealot with no sense of reality.†  (source)
  • All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots — provided only they be sincere — have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.†  (source)
  • Even so, he and his unit threw themselves into the task with a devotion that matched the religious zealotry of their adversaries.†  (source)
  • Boston Corbett, in his own way, is as much a zealot as Booth.†  (source)
  • He's made the same error many zealots make—confusing metaphor with a literal reality.†  (source)
  • The alien quality of this garden was in the severe zealotry of its tending.†  (source)
  • The Professor was also a practicing Catholic, though hardly a zealot.†  (source)
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