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Propagandist vs Zealot - What's the difference?

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Propagandist is a related term of zealot.


As nouns the difference between propagandist and zealot

is that propagandist is a person who disseminates propaganda while zealot is one who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.

As an adjective propagandist

is consisting of or spreading propaganda.

propagandist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who disseminates propaganda.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting of or spreading propaganda.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
  • *:Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience.

    • zealot

    English

    (wikipedia zealot)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic
  • (historical) A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews.
  • (historical) A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.

    • Quotations

    * 1733': For modes of faith, let graceless '''zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man, Epistle III * 1892': Yet Brahmans rule Benares still, / Buddh-Gaya's ruins pit the hill, / And beef-fed '''zealots threaten ill / To Buddha and Kamakura. — Rudyard Kipling, ''Buddha at Kamakura

    Synonyms

    * enthusiast * fanatic

    Related terms

    () * jealous * jealousy * zeal * zealotry * zealous

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