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US
/ˈziɫ/
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[ UK /zˈiːl/ ]
[ UK /zˈiːl/ ]
NOUN
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excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end
he had an absolute zeal for litigation -
prompt willingness
readiness to continue discussions
they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel
he tried to explain his forwardness in battle
they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority -
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
How To Use zeal In A Sentence
- If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
- It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
- Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
- From Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia and India — in text and film and music and image — this booklet is a snapshot of the Asian commons. ACIA: Furthering the Commons in Asia
- The Mater zealots have created an ideal opportunity for change.
- New Zealand had become a multicultural society. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- They were animated by religious zeal.
- How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
- However, he will give us his assurance tonight that he will never grow it, even if it is a boomer crop for New Zealand and provides many, many benefits.
- I am a Chinese New Zealander, I am Asian tauiwi, my parents are from Malaysia and my ancestors from China.