fanaticism

[ US /fəˈnætəˌsɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /fɐnˈætɪsˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. excessive intolerance of opposing views
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How To Use fanaticism In A Sentence

  • The family was liberal and religious: at home her mother had a kosher kitchen and the Jewish holidays were observed without any taint of fanaticism; her father was a carpenter and a shul yid (a Jew who went to the synagogue) whose fine voice led to his being a “baaltfile” (precentor). Vele Rabinowitz Zabludowsky.
  • In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • If any one hated papistry Mrs. Bolton did so; but from a similar action of religious fanaticism she had fallen into worse that papistical self-persecution. John Caldigate
  • Today's enemy, however, is not a philosophy that condemned millions, but an implacable, unappeasable, pitiless fanaticism that exists on the very fringes of humanity.
  • In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • People are killing each other because of bigotry, fanaticism and prejudice, so why are we adding to the burden of intolerance?
  • The author's approach is inspired by concepts of morality and reason as well as faith, but they are remote from the kind of applied fanaticism that goes with the psychology of terrorism.
  • #28 – The “righteous right” will never wake up because it would mean that they’d see their own level of hypocrisy in it all…..just like Dubya….it’s a form of madness….in this case, religious zealotism or fanaticism. Think Progress » Gay marriage ban dropped.
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