zelotypist, n.

zelotypist
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# † zelotypistnoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zelotypist mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zelotypist. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the mid 1600s.

### Where does the noun zelotypist come from?

Earliest known use

mid 1600s

The only known use of the noun zelotypist is in the mid 1600s.

OED's only evidence for zelotypist is from around 1632, in the writing of S. Jerome.

zelotypist is formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: zelotypy n., ‑ist suffix.

### Nearby entries

1. zek, n. 1968–
2. zelant, n. 1624–26
3. zelatrice, n. 1874–
4. zelatrix, n. 1865–
5. Zeldovich, n. 1956–
6. Zelig, n. 1984–
7. Zelig-like, adj. 1983–
8. zelkova, n. 1836–
9. zelotypia, n. 1566–
10. zelotyping, adj. a1660
11. zelotypist, n.?1632
12. zelotypy, n. 1623–1794
13. Zemblan, n. & adj. 1674–1805
14. Zemblian, n. & adj. 1674–1796
15. zemi, n. 1555–
16. zemiistic, adj. 1907–
17. zemirah, n. 1767–
18. zemni, n. 1775–
19. Zemsky Sobor, n. 1877–
20. zemstvo, n. 1865–
21. zemstvoist, n. 1904–

## Etymology

### Summary

Formed within English, by derivation.
< zelotypy n. + ‑ist suffix.

## Meaning & use

Obsolete. rare.

1. ?1632
   A person given to or characterized by excessive jealousy.
   1. ?1632

      > Iealous Husbands, strangely tyranizing over them, whom they suspected: of which there be innumerable examples..in all the hot Countries, where hotspurre Zelotipists have resided.

      S. Jerome, Arraignement of Whole Creature xvii. 302
   1. zealator a1464–1918
      A person who zealously promotes or furthers a cause, belief, etc.; a zealous defender or supporter of something. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).
   2. zealotist 1593–
      A zealot (in either sense A.2 or sense A.3 of the noun). Cf. zealotism, n.
   3. zealot 1596–
      A person who is zealously, fervently or passionately devoted to a cause or belief, or to the pursuit of an objective or outcome. Frequently (and…
   4. zealist 1614–
      A zealot.
   5. zeal 1631–47
      In extended use. A zealous person; a zealot. Obsolete.
   6. zelotypist?1632
      A person given to or characterized by excessive jealousy.
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## Forms

### Variant forms

1. 1600s
   zelotipist

Originally published as part of the entry for zelotypy, n.

zelotypist, n. was revised in June 2018.

zelotypist, n. was last modified in July 2023.