Both Uses of
fanatic
in
Candide
- I knew the whole scribbling rabble, the party rabble, the fanatic rabble.†
Chpt 21 *
- "Do you believe," said Candide, "that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?"†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(fanatic) a person motivated by extreme enthusiasm (as for a cause) -- sometimes to a fault
or:
extremely enthusiastic -- sometimes to a fault