zealot
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On top of that list was Aunt Lydia, the ruthless zealot in charge of the handmaids, played so powerfully by Ann Dowd.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
A sort of penance, where by reading all the nasty comments under every post she assuages some of her guilt, as a zealot whips himself bloody to atone for sin?
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2024
Witnesses have included his flabbergasted ex-wife, who testified that he morphed from a Brooklyn family man into a zealot.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2023
Mr. Rowe long plotted his escape even as he portrayed himself to peers as a zealot of Kim’s rule.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023
Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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