Both Uses
fanatic
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- While waiting for instructions from Moscow, Petchkin had checked up on Tait and found him to be, though a religious fanatic, an efficient and honorable physician, one of the best in government service.†
Chpt 10. *
- Not a fanatic, a man trying to do his duty.†
Chpt 14.
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)