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Word: Fanatic
Speech Type: Noun
mid 16th century (as an adjective): from French fanatique or Latin fanaticus ‘of a temple, inspired by a god’, from fanum ‘temple’. The adjective originally described behaviour that might result from possession by a god or demon, hence the earliest sense of the noun ‘a religious maniac’ (mid 17th century)
fəˈnatɪk
a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause
Short Definition:person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal
Examples:- religious fanatics
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