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phanaticism

phanaticism is the archaic spelling of fanaticism.

Meaning of fanaticism

Noun

fanaticism (countable and uncountable, plural fanaticisms)

  1. The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
    • The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35

Questions about phanaticism

What is phanaticism the archaic spelling of?
Phanaticism is the archaic spelling of fanaticism.

Words near phanaticism in the dictionary

  1. Phanar
  2. Phanariot
  3. Phanariote
  4. Phanariotes
  5. Phanariots
  6. phanaticism
  7. phanatron
  8. phanatrons
  9. phancie
  10. phancied
  11. phancies

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