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zeal⋅ot⋅ry

  [zel-uh-tree]
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–noun
undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.
Origin:
1650–60; zealot + -ry
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zeal·ot·ry   (zěl'ə-trē)   
n.  Excessive zeal; fanaticism.
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Zealotry

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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