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Fanatic   /fənˈætɪk/   Listen
noun
Fanatic  n.  A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. "There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age." "Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment."


adjective
Fanatic  adj.  Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions. "But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last."





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"Fanatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... "There are fanatic fellows with us as in all causes," Evander admitted, "and some, it may be, who wear moroseness to gain favor. But these are no more than the fringe of a stout cloak. I am no exceptional Puritan, I promise you. ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... assassinated on the palace steps by a Mohammedan fanatic. As I told you, he died in ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath
... Revolution from among that wild and fanatical sect, claims to the wandering preachers of his tribe the merit of converting the borderers. He introduces a cavalier, haranguing the Highlanders, and ironically thus guarding them against the fanatic divines: ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... some of their writings, and locked others in their desks against a brighter day. In religion the Emperor's principle was that his subjects should hate the English because they were heretics, and the Pope because he was a fanatic. The "ideologues" and "metaphysicians" were anarchists, for the public order was endangered by their teachings. The newspapers were not only gagged, but metamorphosed—the "French Citizen" into the "French ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... the great talents which we have acknowledged, and which doubtless all will agree with us in acknowledging, the leaders of the Southern rebellion to possess, only enhance the magnitude of their offense, and serve to illustrate with greater force the enormity of their purposes. That a brainless fanatic like Lord George Gordon, or the Neapolitan fisherman, Massaniello, should stir up tremendous agitation, may be matter for critical study, but is hardly a subject of wonder. But that men gifted with ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various


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