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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A madness, an extraordinary fanaticism , took possession of all these new worshippers of the sun.
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At the end of the day, of course, it is fanaticism , not literature, that pulls the trigger.
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But eventually he was forced to concede that religious and regional fanaticism threatened to overwhelm his reforms.
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Deep anxiety may cause obsessive behaviour, fanaticism or a strict adherence to religion for the wrong reasons.
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The boy saw through the fanaticism and found that his sense of chivalry was excited.
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The present writer, too, can testify to the fanaticism from discussions at that time with diplomats in London and overseas.
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They marched on, goaded by a fanaticism which made everything possible, a manic gleam in the eye.