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Meanings of zealots in anglès
Religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism.
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Examples for "zealot"
Examples for "zealot"
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He is a zealot in the grip of a scary new cult.
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If you're outside the window, you'll be viewed as a fringe zealot.
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In the beginning the High Keeper was no more than a zealot.
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Captain Endicott, fierce zealot as he was, found in it something disagreeable.
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I anticipated my eventual overdose like a zealot looking forward to Armageddon.
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The zealotry is frustrating for professional fact-checkers, but it is devastating for families.
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Religious zealotry meets eroticism in Lars von Trier's 1996 film Breaking the Waves.
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He snorted aloud with zealotry and the lust for intellectual battle.
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But there is still an air of zealotry to the place.
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Subtracting zealotry, their motives usually go to revenge, ego, or profit.
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Our Lord does not say-ThoseGalilæans were not sinners at all.
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001:011 who said, Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky?
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Jesus said to them, Do you suppose these Galilaeans were sinners above all other Galilaeans because they suffered such things?
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"This is the work of the Galilaeans," said Julian, "but they shall pay for it."
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Think ye that they whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered such things?
Usage of zealots in anglès
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In Palestine, however, a group of political zealots fiercely opposed Roman rule.
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No one interferes, which, of course, the zealots want us to do.
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MacKinnon and Dworkin are fanatics, zealots, fundamentalists of the new feminist religion.
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That kind of dedication is reserved for zealots of principle and lunatics.
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They are zealots and they will not stop until we are destroyed.
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Some were zealots, but many were from the poorest of the Salamat.
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Those bureaucrats had fled, but the zealots hadn't appeared in their place.
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The zealots at either end of the spectrum would always be around.
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Maybe Masada wasn't occupied solely by Jewish zealots during the first-century revolt.
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Myriads of zealots, like Peter the Hermit, roused all Europe to frenzy.
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At that point we'll discover who was right, the zealots or the worriers.
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How reckless and outrageous to make such means available to zealots.
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Rodeo supporters are already dismissing it as the work of zealots.
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In Britain, animal rights zealots have both assassinated experimental scientists and wrecked property.
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But the zealots among those I brought to Valley felt useless.
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But the frontier zealots of the 'forties were not of the Wesley type.
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