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zealots

noun as in lunatic fringe

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As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.

The United States was not founded as a Christian nation, no matter how many zealots wish it had been.

They also frequented online chat rooms where fellow Islamic zealots teed off with venomous rants about their hate for infidels.

Zealots on motorcycles are throwing acid at women whose veils are deemed too loose in the ancient city of Isfahan.

Add in fiery preaching by anti-gay zealots, often funded by American organizations, and you have a volatile brew ready to explode.

In the flush of Romanticism the zealots neglected those studies which give firmness to the mind.

With the exception of one or two zealots the English Catholics treated the Bull as a dead letter.

The Ireland of zealots and traitors, of rebels and the meek, of madmen and martyrs, of heroes and assassins.

And there was a danger to be encountered far later than that which was due to the anti-Popery zealots of the Tudor dynasty.

Judas and his zealots were thus able to maintain their prominence and gradually to increase their power.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to zealots, such as: aficionados, energumen, extremists, fanatical group, fanaticos, and fanatics.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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