zealotry

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:30:46

Zeal"ot*ry (?), n.

The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.

Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.

 

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