zealot
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On top of that list was Aunt Lydia, the ruthless zealot in charge of the handmaids, played so powerfully by Ann Dowd.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
A sort of penance, where by reading all the nasty comments under every post she assuages some of her guilt, as a zealot whips himself bloody to atone for sin?
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2024
Cleveland was a boyhood bluegrass zealot, not a prodigy.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023
Witnesses have included his flabbergasted ex-wife, who testified that he morphed from a Brooklyn family man into a zealot.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2023
Ishmael’s grandfather had been a Highland Presbyterian, his grandmother an Irish zealot from the bogs above Lough Ree; they met in Seattle five years before the Great Fire, wed, and raised six sons.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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