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:
a fervent and even militant proponent of something