(n.) One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
Example Sentences:
(1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(2) In truth, in the space of one gag I had become more than a fan – I had become a zealot.
(3) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
(4) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
(5) Even then, Cameron heard a constant hum of discontent from the Brexit brigade: taxpayer-funded blimps such as Peter Bone and Philip Davies (he of the recent attacks on “feminist zealots” .
(6) A man stands up, spreads his arms wide and sings: “We love you Brian, we do.” He is instantly joined in the chant by a cluster of zealots dressed, like he is, from bobble hat to weatherproof boots in the royal blue and white livery of Sarpsborg 08 football club.
(7) But an international landscape increasingly dominated by nationalist firebrands, conservative zealots and policy makers in thrall to austerity economics is always apt to waste opportunities.
(8) The son of two devoted workers for the Salvation Army, Jeffries disliked personal publicity and was a zealot when preparing a role (he ran two miles every morning before appearing in the musical Hello Dolly!
(9) Yet zealots are attempting to have legislators pass laws preventing the use of electrotherapy even in voluntary patients.
(10) To the United States government, defenders of the war in Vietnam and conservatives everywhere, Ali was the most dangerous of enemies, a converted zealot, the bombastic mouthpiece of a religion few until then had heard of and hardly any of whom understood, the Nation of Islam.
(11) The presence of religious zealots such as Poots in government is a direct consequence of the peace process.
(12) He said: “Tomorrow, ironically, is the day the United Kingdom becomes truly united because it has only one position: that we are leaving the EU.” The former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said it was the moment that the “utopian wishful thinking from Brexiters” gave way to hard realities, calling on May to “face down the Brexit zealots in her own party and in the Brexit press”.
(13) In an analysis based on hundreds of case files, the security services concluded that there was no single pathway to extremism and far from being religious zealots, many of those involved in terrorism lacked religious literacy, did not practise their faith regularly and could even be regarded as religious novices.
(14) The GWPF is led by Lord Nigel Lawson and the annual lecture has been given by high-profile climate sceptics, including in 2013 former Australian prime minister John Howard, who described those urging action on climate change as “alarmists” and “zealots” for whom “the cause has become a substitute religion”.
(15) Barbers are banned from shaving off beards and women are forced to wear dark robes, while zealots ensure that music is banned from radio stations.
(16) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
(17) As the crowd swelled toward sunrise on Friday, it seemed to represent the larger citizenry of the American south: a calm and forward-looking people, shot through with a smaller number of zealots.
(18) St-Pierre warns that “based on the success of this long-term strategy so far, it is very difficult to imagine a scenario where Maiduguri does not fall into Boko Haram’s hands, albeit for a short period.” Boko Haram has morphed from a handful of religious zealots into a fighting force capable of taking on, and beating, one of Africa’s largest armies From a military perspective, this would be a stunning achievement for Boko Haram, which has morphed from a handful of religious zealots into a fighting force capable of taking on, and beating, one of Africa’s largest armies.
(19) But to others, Assange is just a zealot with a messiah complex.
(20) The anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-international aid zealots.
Zealotry
Definition:
(n.) The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a reminder of how tough the EU can be in enforcing competition in liberalised markets, but would it ever extend such zealotry to core public services?
(2) She maintained a moderate tone throughout and never gave the impression that what she was saying was anything but mainstream or that she was speaking from zealotry.
(3) John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and Arthur Miller's play The Crucible – in which the Salem witch-hunts serve as a metaphor for McCarthyite anti-communist zealotry – will also disappear from the list, according to the Sunday Times.
(4) "That kind of vitriol, hatred, and zealotry is really quite scary.
(5) Isis: the inside story | Martin Chulov Read more In its capacity to invade and hold a territory the size of England, to inspire me-too zealotry in Pakistan, Gaza, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya and Egypt, and to entice thousands of camp followers, Isis represents a quantum leap over all other private and state-sanctioned cults of violence and authoritarianism today.
(6) In doing so, he copped a political firestorm, even though it was obvious, or should have been, that sustaining economic growth and employment is always more important than the zealotry of always focusing on a smaller budget deficit.
(7) The Saudi regime is an unstable mix of ferocious religious zealotry and hypocritical monarchial decadence.
(8) Earlier on Tuesday, Abbott said "at this stage" Canberra was only preparing to be involved in a humanitarian mission to help ensure that tens of thousands of refugees in Iraq were not "exposed to the murderous zealotry of the Islamic State".
(9) Such policy zealotry ignores the subtleties of the cycle.
(10) At times of war, failing to participate with sufficient zealotry in the vilification of the current public enemy number one is treated as apologising for evil, or even as near-treachery.
(11) The shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, said: "This has all the Leninist fervour and ideological zealotry that surrounds Gove.
(12) For a membership once known for its love of quirky tartan outfits, the sartorial giddiness has been kept to a minimum, and perhaps this is mirrored too in the lack of referendum-related zealotry.
(13) The GOP's zealotry on tax cuts is only matched by its zealotry in pursuing austerity policies.
(14) He despised political expediency, but abhorred misplaced idealism and zealotry.