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- noun Plural form of
fanaticism .
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Examples
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Associated Press Thomas Jefferson In 1820, after retiring from public life, Jefferson produced a second scripture by subtraction—the book that is now being restored in D.C. In "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth," he again sought to excise passages "of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, or superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications."
Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible Stephen Prothero 2011
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It is clear from what we know of Mr Beck's popularity that there are too many Americans who pay attention to fanaticisms of all kinds: God speaking to and through privileged individuals, theories of conspiracies by governments, Communist plots to brainwash the population, secret societies within great universities plotting to take away our freedoms.
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It is clear from what we know of Mr Beck's popularity that there are too many Americans who pay attention to fanaticisms of all kinds: God speaking to and through privileged individuals, theories of conspiracies by governments, Communist plots to brainwash the population, secret societies within great universities plotting to take away our freedoms.
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The “fanatical” concern about the religious cause of “fanaticism” has blinded us to the “fanaticisms” that stem from science itself and has caused us to misunderstand what it is within Islam that often makes it so “fanatical.”
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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There were fanaticisms, none of which he had any part in.
Archive 2009-09-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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There were fanaticisms, none of which he had any part in.
Irving Kristol, the heretical conservative Burke's Corner 2009
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A ruined planet would be a planet of wars, tribes, patriarchies, atrocities, and fanaticisms.
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By looking for its causes in the wrong place, we often reveal our own “fanaticisms.”
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The “fanatical” concern about the religious cause of “fanaticism” has blinded us to the “fanaticisms” that stem from science itself and has caused us to misunderstand what it is within Islam that often makes it so “fanatical.”
Ashram turns a hotbed for patronage seeking and cronyism Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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By looking for its causes in the wrong place, we often reveal our own “fanaticisms.”
Ashram turns a hotbed for patronage seeking and cronyism Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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