Much more than a mere fan

Usage examples of zealot.

These men were as eager to overthrow the Baptist as any Jewish Zealot to overthrow Rome.

The third, the memory which had just reproved me, was a religious fanatic, one of the Zealots who had preached the Faith and ruled the Ult during the wars and dominated the Council after victory.

Committee of Public Safety, it ended the anarchic process by which zealots could take the law into their own hands.

A ladder had been planted for the assault, but it was furiously shaken by a crowd of zealots and women: they beheld, with pious transport, the ministers of sacrilege tumbling from on high and dashed against the pavement: and the honors of the ancient martyrs were prostituted to these criminals, who justly suffered for murder and rebellion.

Kendall found Starr smooth, witty, polished, hardly a Republican zealot.

But I listened not to the Zealot: could the steady and bright torch which, even where the Star of Bethlehem had withheld its diviner light, had guided some patient and unwearied steps to the very throne of Virtue, become but a deceitful meteor to him who kindled it for the aid of Religion, and in an eternal cause?

Liberals mock Americans who love their country, calling them cowboys, warmongers, religious zealots, and jingoists.

Hideous tales were told of these Irish, led by a left-handed Macdonald--savage as Amalekites, blind zealots of Rome, burning and slaughtering, and sparing neither sex nor age.

Avery had been saddled with in the aftermath of her college fiasco as a corrupt, antiestablishment, rabble-rousing zealot who wanted to stick it to the system.

On the campaign trail, Barnett was transformed from a kindly grandfather figure into a zealot of scorching defiance and ferocity.

Julian and the rest at the table was merely a heated discussion abruptly cut off by an overwrought Christian zealot who, like all his coreligionists, took himself far too seriously for polite company.

Presidente Viera was assassinated during her third term in office by a crazed divisionist zealot.

Tonight is the first night of Diwali, the Festival of Light, and Fenner walks through a tumult of carhorns and jangling bangra music, of beggars, zealots and Shiv Sena thugs.

Later still, groups of Homo sapiens sapiens -- that is, my kind -- were swept here from the Earths of the groups called the English and the Zealots, and no doubt others.

But she saw that the Hams cowered from these Zealots, as they called them, a label Emma found less than encouraging.