Fanaticism Definition

Fanaticism Sentence Examples

• We know but little of Isaiah's predecessors and models in the prophetic art (it were fanaticism to exclude the element of human preparation); but certainly even the acknowledged prophecies of Isaiah (and much more the disputed ones) could no more have come into existence suddenly and without warning than the masterpieces of Shakespeare.

• The hostility he encountered in the propagation of these new religious ideas after his return to Khorasan in 1052 and Sunnite fanaticism compelled him at last to flee, and after many wanderings he found a refuge in Yumgan (about 1060) in the mountains of Badakshan, where he spent as a hermit the last decades of his life, and gathered round him a considerable number of devoted adherents, who have handed down his doctrines to succeeding generations.

• Fanaticism took advantage of this order; 1 Scultetus, Annales, ii.

• Marius had a decided tinge of fanaticism and superstition.

• Yet even in the enlightened 18th century popular fanaticism made of sacrilege the most heinous offence.