FANATICISM in a Sentence

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1. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism.
2. His political views have a savour of fanaticism.
3. The bombing symbolizes the worst of religious fanaticism.
4. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law.
5. An Israeli study of Palestinian suicide bombers from 2003 says religious fanaticism is just one of many factors.

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 Meanings and Examples of FANATICISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fanaticism
 n.  excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause
Classic Sentence:
1  To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
2  However, this sceptic had one fanaticism.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
3  This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  They had, however, what supplied the place of those fine qualities," replied the young man, "and that was fanaticism.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
5  The fate of Miriam had indeed been to fall a sacrifice to the fanaticism of the times; but her secrets had survived in her apt pupil.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
Example Sentence:
1  His political views have a savour of fanaticism.
2  The bombing symbolizes the worst of religious fanaticism.
3  An Israeli study of Palestinian suicide bombers from 2003 says religious fanaticism is just one of many factors.