Which preposition to use with fanatic

of Occurrences 31%

The concept of the endocrine-vegetative apparatus as the determinant of normal and abnormal behaviour, emotional reactions and disturbances of power should in time cause even the most fanatic of the psychanalysts to recognize the functional basis of the mental acrostics they are so fond of dissecting.

in Occurrences 18%

He disliked, for instance, a fanatic in any bad cause, as much as or more than one who adopted the same cause from self-interest, because he thought him even more likely to be practically mischievous.

for Occurrences 5%

She was in danger of becoming either a fanatic for truth, or indifferent to it.

from Occurrences 3%

It is easier to wean an ignorant fanatic from his error than a confirmed scoundrel from his scoundrelism.

on Occurrences 3%

The royal authority was openly and publicly disowned in the western districts: the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, after more than one hairbreadth escape, was waylaid, and barbarously murdered by an armed gang of fanatics on Magus Muir; and his daughter was wounded and maltreated while interceding for the old man's life.

to Occurrences 3%

It requires no profound research to comprehend the impulse which leads a horde of fanatics to the most monstrous excesses.

with Occurrences 2%

The farther west she extends, the more she becomes self-contained, sombre, uninfluenced, a gloomy fanatic with her back to the walls of the Atlantic and the Atlas.

at Occurrences 2%

The further objectsof punishing other tribes, and destroying the refuge of the fanatics at Mulkamay be abandoned if it be deemed advisable, without any loss of prestige, though of course with some abatement of the completeness of the movement.

about Occurrences 2%

"Patrick was fanatic about the car.

by Occurrences 1%

This was the assassination of Von Kotzebue, the dramatic author, at Manheim, at the hands of a fanatic by the name of Sand.

as Occurrences 1%

Such fanatics as Giddings and Hale are doing more mischief than they will be able to atone for.

outside Occurrences 1%

We stand united,what care we for the ravings of fanatics outside our borders, so long as our institution is a blessing to us, planted on the rock of Christianity, and endorsed by the best men among us!"

among Occurrences 1%

" A learned man who had composed thirteen volumes on the properties of the griffin, and was besides the chief theurgite, hastened away to accuse Zadig before one of the principal magi, named Yebor, the greatest blockhead and therefore the greatest fanatic among the Chaldeans.

like Occurrences 1%

In spite of the complaints of fanatics like Euloge and Alvaro, the literary history of that time was filled with Christian names, either those of Spanish who had remained faithful to the ancient faith, or renegades, or children of renegades.

Which preposition to use with  fanatic