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Example sentences for: zealot

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The 1823 conclave of zelanti (zealot) cardinals elected arch-conservative Leo XII to help the papacy recover from its Napoleonic shock.
He ended up as a zealot, unprepared to deal with the likes of Sidney Blumenthal and James Carville.
Henri maintained a reputation as a worthy and brave leader — and at the same time as an incorrigible womanizer — until his assassination in 1610 by a religious zealot.
Ewing, not Starr, seems to be the zealot in the independent counsel's office.
In sending a message that the party can't take its conservative base for granted, Dobson also sends a signal to the electorate as a whole: Republicans are being ordered around by a frightening religious zealot.