(a.) Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
(n.) A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(2) As extreme forms the two polarized radicals who now fanatically stylize the other as the enemy, will fight to the death their own denied opposite side psychodynamically.
(3) They were not oleophobe fanatics here to attack the Petrobras, nor Oil Firsters, here to kill him, his colleagues and all those who came to investigate or exploit, in their parlance, the visitations.
(4) Eritrea is gripped by a fanatical love for the sport.
(5) Yet they illegally invaded Iraq with Conservative support, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and 179 British military personnel before handing much of the country over to fanatics.
(6) Inevitably at our rallies we unfortunately have some fanatics & we have tried our best to have them removed.” But it said it would abide by the singer’s request not to use his songs.
(7) The anti-Muslim fanatic said the three bombs would be followed by several shooting massacres, if he survived.
(8) Rumours swirl of a higher death toll, the use of poisonous gas and the body of a pregnant woman garrotted by pro-Ukraine fanatics.
(9) But the heir to the throne has at least done this debate one favour by demonstrating that not all climate change fanatics are lefties.
(10) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(11) The last major initiative - the Oslo process - began in 1992 with secret negotiations between Mr Arafat (then the exiled head of the PLO) and the then Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated by a rightwing Jewish fanatic.
(12) This is not the first time that the Tory party has tried to appease its fanatics about Europe in an effort to resolve its dilemmas and failings.
(13) Rudisha was also congratulated by Frank Lampard, attending as a guest of Coe, but had to break it to the Chelsea midfielder that he was an Arsenal fanatic.
(14) Broadcaster and football fanatic Danny Baker parodied the BBC's instructions to Neville: "We've an idea tonight's match could get quite heated.
(15) What is going to happen to the thousands of Yazidis besieged on Mount Sinjar by the bloodthirsty fanatics of Islamic State, or to the ancient Christian communities being systematically driven out of their homes ?
(16) On 30 June, as the Brotherhood’s enemies protested against Morsi and portrayed the group as fanatics intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic state, supporters had organised their own, smaller marches in support of the president.
(17) They are reflecting a move in public opinion which people like me who are Euro-fanatical have to admit is real.
(18) They are fleeing, perforce, the most awful conditions imaginable: a vicious, endless civil war that sees schools targeted with barrel bombs, communities assaulted with chemical weapons, and whole cities destroyed in a conflict between lawless jihadi fanatics and regime forces fighting for survival.
(19) That gin-obsessed burlesque and cupcake fanatic you've secretly had your eye on?
(20) In the "era of colourblindness" there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have "moved beyond" race.
Heretic
Definition:
(n.) One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
(n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the problem of predicting the selection effect using statistical estimates of heretability is connected with the problem of investigation of population heterogeneity and integrating their genetical structure.
(2) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(3) The IS group considers Shias to be heretics and is fighting Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq and Syria.
(4) It used to be it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier,” Cruz said.
(5) Benito Mussolini, the future Fascist leader of Italy, was one of Italy's most prominent socialists, publishing historical biographies under the pen name "Vero Eretico" or "true heretic".
(6) I had never heard a formerly so heretical view expressed in any Arab quarter so publicly.
(7) Then maybe you might even avoid being called by the Inquisition for an 'assessment' of whether you have the Devil's mark or a third nipple or any other sign that you are a heretical 'scrounger'.
(8) Yet it is ever more dissected by hacks and bloggers who pretend to be heretical but are just gossip merchants who never question the deep structures of governance and merely legitimate their own crepuscular existence.
(9) If I’m a heretic then I’m proud because the root of the word ‘heretic’ is ‘choice’.
(10) Obviously games mattered to the crowd, who cheered Jobs's announcement that 12 current games, including Tomb Raider III, StarCraft, Heretic 2, Age of Empires, Quake and Quest for Glory 5 would be out on the Mac within the next 120 days.
(11) The temperature is always a little higher with a heretic in the room.
(12) Moore shows that the production of false knowledge about the victims of persecution, such as heretics and Jews, as well as the destruction of their actual identities, was a crucial feature of Europe's "persecuting societies".
(13) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(14) With felicitous timing, London's Royal Court theatre is staging Richard Bean's hilarious if chaotic play, Heretic, about a university department eager for a grant from a multinational company and ready to suppress academic rigour to do so.
(15) He found precursors of the witch-hunts in the persecution of early Christians by the Romans, in the Church's campaigns against 12th-century heretics, and in the destruction of the Knights Templars.
(16) Isis regards Shia Muslims as heretics, and refers to them derogatively as “rafideen” or “rejectionists”.
(17) The difficult position of the heretic as a challenger to an entrenched orthodoxy is described, particularly the attempt of heretics to assert their allegiance to the discourse itself while the orthodoxy attempts to portray them as traitors or apostates.
(18) Many of the dead and wounded, Murtaza said, were from the Shia sect of Islam, which extremist groups drawn from Pakistan's majority Sunni popular regard as heretics.
(19) The core problem was that the stranglehold that market logic secured over public life in this period made the most direct and obvious climate responses seem politically heretical.
(20) The Templar order risked becoming a refuge for heretics who denied Jesus was fully human and the Shroud offered evidence to the contrary.