enthusiast

• She has sounded society and found it too shallow; sounded philosophy and found it too deep; and upon her horizon of desires and disappointments has loomed the colossal presence of Bale-Corphew--enthusiast, mystic, leader of a fascinatingly unorthodox sect. —  The Mystics A Novel
• You're not a 'Strong' enthusiast--never were! —  A Popular Schoolgirl
• But Augustus was more than a sentimental enthusiast, and he saw that it was not enough for men to drop their swords at the epiphany of "Roma Aeterna," that their eyes would grow weary and looking to earth would behold the swords again. —  The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome
• The act of the enthusiast is often tainted with folly. —  Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
• Winona was naturally an enthusiast, and tried to keep others up to the mark. —  The Luckiest Girl in the School

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