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zealotry
CIDE DICTIONARY
zealotry, n.
The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause. [1913 Webster]
"Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
zealotry
bibliolatry, bigotry, charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness, extremism, fanaticalness, fanaticism, fervor, frenzy, fury, gift of tongues, glossolalia, hysteria, infatuation, mania, monomania, obsession, obsessiveness, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overdevoutness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overpiousness, overreaction, overreligiousness, overrighteousness, overzealousness, pentecostalism, perfervidness, rabidness, radicalism, revival, revivalism, sanctimony, single-mindedness, terrorism, ultrazealousness, zeal, zealotism, zealousnessROGET THESAURUS
zealotry
Obstinacy
N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.For further exploring for "zealotry" in Webster Dictionary Online