Religious
Religious adjective - Having or expressing great depth of feeling.
Usage example: a woman known for embracing various causes with a religious enthusiasm
Zealous and religious are semantically related. in scrupulous topic. In some cases you can use "Zealous" instead an adjective "Religious".
Both words in one sentence
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Anti-Magical Faction: The Empirikul are a zealous Mage Killer faction with a religious devotion to destroying all magic throughout the multiverse.
Source: Comic Book / Doctor Strange - Religious, zealous, and plain dumb, he sees Cain as a complete scoundrel, which ironically enough from the point of view of Cain's own narration is something of a Cassandra Truth.
Source: Obstructive Zealot -
Brown Note: At one point, Index uses "Sheol Fear" against an army of nuns from the Roman Catholic church, which incapacitates zealous religious types by pointing out contradictions in their teachings.
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