🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Eifern

Native Script:Eiferei

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aifern

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Zealotry/ˈzɛlətri/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Religiöse Eiferei kann zu Konflikten führen."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Fanatical and uncompromising pursuit of a religious, political, or other ideal.

    "The country's political stability was threatened by rising religious zealotry."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'zealot', from Late Latin zēlōtēs, from Greek zēlōtēs 'emulator, zealous follower', from zēlos 'zeal'.

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