zealot

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I'm not a politician or a zealot, and I struggle with people who don't have the courage to stand up and take responsibility for things they say.

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  1. noun One who is zealous, especially excessively so.
  2. noun A fanatically committed person.
  3. noun A member of a Jewish movement of the first century A.D. that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism.

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  • You're a zealot, a fanatic, a crazy, someone most right-thinking people try to avoid. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
  • Franklin Moore was a hockey zealot, the Huskies had returned from a triumphant road trip, the natural thing would have been for Moore to ride in the bus. —  Murder Without Icing-Emma Lathen-Thatcher 14
  • SimpleTest; the lead developer of PHPT; a TDD advocate-sometimes called a zealot-and lurker on many a PHP project mailing list when not learning other —  Travis Swicegood
  • A super editorial appeared in yesterday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, defending Paul (and, more generally, the First Amendment) and calling AG Drew Edmondson a "zealot" and "a bully with considerable power, a high state office, and more ambition than respect for the rights of others." —  Voice For Liberty in Wichita
  • Different, related, via Castle Argghhh!!!, our religious zealot is a better shot than their religious zealot. —  Jules Crittenden
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  1. Middle English zelote, from Latin zēlōtēs, from Greek, from zēlos, zeal.

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  1. from Old French zelote, from Late Latin zelotes, from Greek ζηλωτής, a zealot, from ζῆλος, zeal: see zeal.
 

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