non-fanatic
Collocations
5ADJ.
green, many, reassuring
VERB + NON-FANATIC
sober, turn
NON-FANATIC + NOUN
citizens, egyptian, mary, william
PREP.
into
ADV.
distinctly, only
Definitions
adj
Alternative form of nonfanatic.
To Italians, the Senegalese Muslims give the impression of being very different, though not in a threatening way: their brand of Islam is considered by many "reassuring" and "non-fanatic".
I remember how Egypt used to absorb all fanatics in its civilization and reshape them and turn them into non-fanatic Egyptian citizens.
noun
Alternative form of nonfanatic.
The first obvious observation to be made is that the fanatic never sees himself as a fanatic ; it is only the non-fanatic who can recognize him as a fanatic ; so that when this judgment, or this accusation, is made, the fanatic can always say that he is misunderstood and slandered.
However, as a green non-fanatic and, it must be said, non-patriot, in those noble and desperate days in Dublin, I should have felt awkward, among the quick and heroic (and I call some of my then-friends heroic without irony, as I know they hold their lives ready for Ireland at all hours — to my great wonder) — but I do not remember to have been embarrassed.
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6To Italians, the Senegalese Muslims give the impression of being very different, though not in a threatening way: their brand of Islam is considered by many "reassuring" and "non-fanatic".
WiktionaryI remember how Egypt used to absorb all fanatics in its civilization and reshape them and turn them into non-fanatic Egyptian citizens.
WiktionaryPerhaps the believers in the narrative of the mystical marriage could not recognise the reign of the sober and distinctly non-fanatic William and Mary as the happy ending of Sion in Distress or the mi
WiktionaryThe first obvious observation to be made is that the fanatic never sees himself as a fanatic ; it is only the non-fanatic who can recognize him as a fanatic ; so that when this judgment, or this accus
WiktionaryHowever, as a green non-fanatic and, it must be said, non-patriot, in those noble and desperate days in Dublin, I should have felt awkward, among the quick and heroic (and I call some of my then-frien
WiktionaryHence, the intensity of the community's values may tend to drive the non-fanatics out.
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