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Meaning of ZEALOTRY

Pronunciation:  'zelutree

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 Definition: [n]  excessive intolerance of opposing views
 
 Synonyms: fanaticism
 
 See Also: intolerance

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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