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zealot

[zel-uht] / ˈzɛl ət /
NOUN
enthusiast
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Brands writes in his gripping new dual biography, “The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2020

He calls himself the Turfgrass Zealot and has a stock speech about his successes.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2019

He’s written three books on religion: No god but God, which is about Islam; Beyond Fundamentalism, which is about religious extremism; and Zealot, which is about Jesus of Nazareth.

From Slate • May 4, 2017

Gabe Fazio’s Simon the Zealot is one of these, occupying the witness stand with such intensity and stillness that the whole room shrinks to his little part of it.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017

Z stands for Zealot, and Zany, Of whom in this World there are so many.

From The Sugar-Plumb or, Golden Fairing by Two-Shoes, Margery




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