Meaning of zealotry in English:

noun

• Fanatical and uncompromising pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals; fanaticism.

  ‘he expressed concern about religious zealotry playing an increasing role in politics’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It illustrates the evil that happens when religious zealotry combines with extreme misogyny.’
  • ‘I couldn't resist reading that story in this era of Hitlerian anti-smoking zealotry.’
  • ‘Replacing the zealotry of religious intolerance with a secular version is hardly an enlightened alternative.’