(n.) The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a reminder of how tough the EU can be in enforcing competition in liberalised markets, but would it ever extend such zealotry to core public services?
(2) She maintained a moderate tone throughout and never gave the impression that what she was saying was anything but mainstream or that she was speaking from zealotry.
(3) John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and Arthur Miller's play The Crucible – in which the Salem witch-hunts serve as a metaphor for McCarthyite anti-communist zealotry – will also disappear from the list, according to the Sunday Times.
(4) "That kind of vitriol, hatred, and zealotry is really quite scary.
(5) Isis: the inside story | Martin Chulov Read more In its capacity to invade and hold a territory the size of England, to inspire me-too zealotry in Pakistan, Gaza, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya and Egypt, and to entice thousands of camp followers, Isis represents a quantum leap over all other private and state-sanctioned cults of violence and authoritarianism today.
(6) In doing so, he copped a political firestorm, even though it was obvious, or should have been, that sustaining economic growth and employment is always more important than the zealotry of always focusing on a smaller budget deficit.
(7) The Saudi regime is an unstable mix of ferocious religious zealotry and hypocritical monarchial decadence.
(8) Earlier on Tuesday, Abbott said "at this stage" Canberra was only preparing to be involved in a humanitarian mission to help ensure that tens of thousands of refugees in Iraq were not "exposed to the murderous zealotry of the Islamic State".
(9) Such policy zealotry ignores the subtleties of the cycle.
(10) At times of war, failing to participate with sufficient zealotry in the vilification of the current public enemy number one is treated as apologising for evil, or even as near-treachery.
(11) The shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, said: "This has all the Leninist fervour and ideological zealotry that surrounds Gove.
(12) For a membership once known for its love of quirky tartan outfits, the sartorial giddiness has been kept to a minimum, and perhaps this is mirrored too in the lack of referendum-related zealotry.
(13) The GOP's zealotry on tax cuts is only matched by its zealotry in pursuing austerity policies.
(14) He despised political expediency, but abhorred misplaced idealism and zealotry.
Zealously
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(2) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(3) His allies charge the prime minister with cowardice for dispatching one of his most zealously reforming ministers.
(4) Abaaoud’s older sister, Yasmina, told the New York Times in January that neither of the brothers showed a zealous interest in religion before leaving for Syria.
(5) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
(6) Care must be taken to guard against the health worker being overly zealous in motivating and mobilizing potential voluntary sterilization contraception candidates.
(7) Colonel David Black of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment says soldiers need to operate without being worried about "over-zealous and remote officialdom".
(8) After a zealous assessment of respective anatomical merits, attention switched to flaws.
(9) Those who leave the left are often those who end up detesting it more: becoming a convert often means being more zealous than existing believers.
(10) Sutherland said the Co-op bank's bad loans were mostly accounted for by Britannia, with half of all its poorly performing retail loans and three quarters of its roughly £440m corporate bad debts blamed on over-zealous loan agreements sold by the building society.
(11) Miller, too, earned Trump’s praise and widespread scorn for his zealous defense of the president and for peddling a baseless claim about phantom illegal voting.
(12) Most attempts to humanize medicine have at best been temporary, barely touching the margins of medicine and sustained largely by their zealous advocates.
(13) Arteta had been introduced as an early substitute for Coquelin, who hurt his knee in a zealous tackle on Claudio Yacob.
(14) In that sense, zealous neoconservatism may not be the cleverest political option, and May's ideas may yet point the way ahead.
(15) It has been zealously guarded by the recipients of the letters themselves, and over the last few years, by the full might of the British state and government, as Whitehall has fought every step of the way to stop the Freedom of Information Act disclosure of the letters to Rob Evans of the Guardian.
(16) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
(17) Then, one evening, her zealous son accused her of tacitly criticising Mao.
(18) They are in the firing line if they do not endorse a zealous world view.
(19) They are beaten up and raped daily and it's not because they feel bad about themselves or have been got at by some zealous politically correct propaganda.
(20) Behind him lies the zealous, over-confident Dominic Cummings, his special adviser at education – forced out – humiliated at the Treasury select committee when his version of reality collided with its clever Tory chairman, Andrew Tyrie.