zeal

[Zeal]

Zeal is dedication or enthusiasm for something. If you have zeal, you're willing, energized, and motivated.

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Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.

Noun
excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end; "he had an absolute zeal for litigation"

Noun
a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal"


n.
Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.

n.
A zealot.

v. i.
To be zealous.


Zeal

Zeal , n. [F. z'8ale; cf. Pg. & It. zelo, Sp. zelo, celo; from L. zelus, Gr. , probably akin to to boil. Cf. Yeast, Jealous.] 1. Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor. "Ambition varnished o'er with zeal." Milton. "Zeal, the blind conductor of the will." Dryden. "Zeal's never-dying fire." Keble.
I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
A zeal for liberty is sometimes an eagerness to subvert with little care what shall be established.
2. A zealot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Zeal

Zeal, v. i. To be zealous. [Obs. & R.] Bacon.

Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.

To be zealous.

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Usage Examples

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

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