zealant

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zealant (plural zealants)

  1. (archaic) A zealot.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Unity in Religion”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious.
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