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   zealotry
         n 1: excessive intolerance of opposing views [syn: {fanaticism},
               {fanatism}, {zealotry}]

English Dictionary: Zweileitertechnik by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zoolatry
n
  1. the worship of animals
    Synonym(s): zoolatry, animal-worship
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zealotry \Zeal"ot*ry\, n.
      The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal;
      fanatical devotion to a cause.
  
               Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the
               German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of
               the French.                                             --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zo94latry \Zo*[94]l"a*try\, n. [Zo[94]- + Gr. [?] worship.]
      The worship of animals.
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