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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.
Praise for The Sweet Hereafter writer Russell Banks' first historical novel, about the abolitionist zealot John Brown.
The liberal view of Reed is that he's the Christian right's zealot in chief, a devil with a cherub's face.