All 5 Uses of
fanatic
in
Gone with the Wind
- Every matron, old or young, in Atlanta nursed and did it with an enthusiasm that seemed to Scarlett little short of fanatic.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- There was a deep, almost fanatic glow in her eyes that for a moment lit up her plain little face and made it beautiful.†
Chpt 2.9
- They're wrong—sinful," she knew the Cause meant nothing at all to her and that she was bored with hearing other people talk about it with that fanatic look in their eyes.†
Chpt 2.9
- She had not been sustained through privations, the sickening duties of nursing, the fears of the siege and the hunger of the last few months by the fanatic glow which made all these things endurable to others, if only the Cause prospered.†
Chpt 3.29
- Aided by the unscrupulous adventurers who operated the Freedmen's Bureau and urged on by a fervor of Northern hatred almost religious in its fanaticism, the former field hands found themselves suddenly elevated to the seats of the mighty.†
Chpt 4.37
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