zealotry
nounGraduateELO 1,550GREGMAT
DEFINITION
excessive intolerance of opposing views
WEBSTER'S 1913
The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin 'zeal' + '-otry'
SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
IN LITERATURE
“It was only the uncultured who held their artistic and political creeds with the narrowness of Little Bethel, importing into thought and aesthetics the zealotry they had lost in religion.”
— Israel Zangwill, Without Prejudice
IN USE
“Through his zealotry as well as his legal and verbal dexterity, he quickly established himself as the most feared judge in Nazi Germany and the personification of the Nazi ideology in domestic law.”
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