All 5 Uses
fanatic
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.
p. 58.9fanatically = with extreme enthusiasm
- The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering — a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans,
p. 74.2 *fanatics = people motivated by extreme enthusiasm for a cause
- However much in earnest he might be, he had nothing of the single-mindedness that belongs to a fanatic.
p. 175.3fanatic = someone motivated by extreme enthusiasm for a cause
- Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
p. 192.5
- This peculiar linking-together of opposites — knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism-is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society.
p. 216.2fanaticism = extreme enthusiasm
Definitions:
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(1)
(fanatic) a person motivated by extreme enthusiasm (as for a cause) -- sometimes to a fault
or:
extremely enthusiastic -- sometimes to a fault - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)