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:b. In a weaker sense: Eagerness or enthusiasm in any pursuit.
 
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The life [[purpose]] must be jealously guarded from the temptation to seek for easy and transient attainment; likewise must it be so fostered as to become immune to the disastrous threats of '''fanaticism'''.[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper160.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper160.html&line=90#mfs]
  
 
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Origins

ad. L. fanatic-us, f. fanum temple: see -ATIC. Cf. Fr. fanatique.

Definitions

  • 1. The condition of being, or supposing oneself to be, possessed. Obs.
  • 2. The tendency to indulge in wild and extravagant notions, esp. in religious matters; excessive enthusiasm, frenzy; an instance, a particular form, of this.
a. A fanatic person; a visionary; an unreasoning enthusiast. Applied in the latter half of the 17th c. to Nonconformists as a hostile epithet.
b. In a weaker sense: Eagerness or enthusiasm in any pursuit.

Quote

The life purpose must be jealously guarded from the temptation to seek for easy and transient attainment; likewise must it be so fostered as to become immune to the disastrous threats of fanaticism.[1]