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What does zeal mean?

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zeal Noun

— If someone has zeal, they work very hard at a certain goal. My brother is training with great zeal - he practices at every spare moment so that he can make the soccer team. St. Paul spread Christianity with zeal after his conversion.

zeal

— noun excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end he had an absolute zeal for litigation — noun (= ardor, ardour) 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 — noun (= readiness, eagerness, forwardness) prompt willingness readiness to continue discussions they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority he tried to explain his forwardness in battle

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zeal English » English

enthusiasm ardour eagerness ardor fervor fervour passion earnestness diligence fervency keenness goodwill excitement energy elan assiduity heat forwardness fire zest zealotry violence verve spirit speed relish readiness promptitude perseverance mettle interest impulse fanaticism extremism evangelism endeavour endeavor effrt determination blaze assiduousness alacrity zealousness yearning willingness warmth warm-hearted vigor vehemence thoughtfulness

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enthusiasm eagerness zeal

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Simple sentences

He did it with great zeal.

Because zeal for Thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproach Thee are fallen upon me.

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I don't know whether it's zeal or devotion, but your sheer life force makes me feel ashamed.

This do I beg of God. when I am cold in zeal to you or yours.

Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince. lend favorable ear to our request. and pardon us the interruption. of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.

We are not accustomed to such an excess of zeal.

Rev. Brown, Rev. Brown, I know it's the great zeal of your faith which makes you utter this prayer. But it is possible to be overzealous to destroy that which you hope to save so that nothing is left but emptiness.

I should have thought, mister Barnard that a man of your investigative zeal would have already solved the mystery.

Your methods, so far as this court can discern, showed what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal.

We cannot condemn zeal.

But Marquis, my zeal!

Excess of zeal!

I'm glad, my son, to see you here in Rome and at work. Even though I declared a holiday, I commend such zeal.

His zeal got the better of him.

One hundred knife wounds goes beyond normal patriotic zeal.

Above all, Major Grau, not too much zeal.

Lisinski had worked tirelessly and with so much zeal to bring his first opera to life, that he neglected to take care of himself.

I expect a display of renewed zeal to show your gratitude.

She leaves her warm bed in the cold dawn to rush here full of zeal and loyalty.

You joined in the conversation with a zeal I found forced.

A Catholic worker who has taken communion will continue the strike with more zeal.

Even though I declared a holiday, I commend such zeal.

I plead guilty to an excess of scientific zeal, Your Honor with the recommendation of probation.

Hey, Marsh, I certainly admire your daughter's zeal.

There's little conflict in our country between the generations because our youth know that we share their idealistic zeal.

With fire, my brothers, we have purified all that lives with our zeal. and we shall continue with our work.

So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work.

Serving with ardor and with zeal!

Your zeal will be appreciated in high places. - One minute! - Leave me alone.

Before the mortar of his zeal Has a chance to congeal The cup is dashed from his lips!

So, with typical mid-victorian zeal, he set to work.

Where has this zeal come from?

Oh, I see, the fanatical zeal of the ex-smoker.

Please, forgive Him His zeal.

He's found himself a fool. You got hoarse from zeal.

The theatrical zeal in the veins.

Man should free himself of excessive labour since zeal makes the individual.

What's with the sudden mercenary zeal?

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Growth and jobs need to be promoted with equal zeal.

So why didn't they scrutinize the US economy with equal zeal?

Monnet and other European technocrats were not exactly opposed to democracy, but in their zeal to unify Europe's diverse nation-states, they often appeared to ignore it.

None of this zeal is new in China.

Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse.

Alas, some Europhiles' unifying zeal has all too often spilled beyond the bounds of economic reason, even common sense.

To be sure, excessive zeal in denouncing Israel, and cheap comparisons between Israeli violence and Nazi mass murder, betray a dubious urge to throw off the burdens of guilt.

Her missionary zeal fell on deaf ears.

With his coup in 1977, General Zia ul Haq injected a messianic zeal to redefine Pakistan as an Islamic state governed by Sharia (Islamic Law).

This overweening certitude is not new - the United States, after all, was founded on missionary zeal - but the ethical arrogance is.

Moreover, they come from a scientific background, and science is usually not associated with religious zeal or political fanaticism.

Europe has committed itself to fiscal responsibility--with almost too much zeal, failing to recognize that a well designed deficit in times of recession may yield high returns.

Perhaps three-quarters of Israelis and Palestinians are eager for peace and compromise, while a quarter on each side - often fueled by extreme religious zeal - wants a complete victory over the other.

Once masters of the situation, it is said, the zeal of those who promised reform mutated into a zeal to preserve their private wealth and that of their friends.

In his zeal to intervene, Obama is again disregarding US and international law by seeking approval from neither the US Congress nor the United Nations Security Council.

So the Bundesbank's self-righteous zeal in asserting that its responsibilities are somehow graver - and more binding - than those of other central banks is dangerously wrong-headed.

Renewables have been pursued with a sort of missionary zeal, regardless of their effectiveness or feasibility.

In his zeal to promote the power of markets, he drew too sharp a distinction between the market and the state.

In our zeal to display the profession's crown jewels in untarnished form - market efficiency, the invisible hand, comparative advantage - we skip over the real-world complications and nuances, well recognized as they are in the discipline.

Perhaps because so many other taboos have fallen, the taboo on sex with children is guarded with almost fanatical zeal.

Above all, not too much zeal.

When it comes to anti-Jewish zeal, Husseini's record hardly needs false footnotes - unless, apparently, one has an interest in presenting the Palestinians as co-perpetrators of the Holocaust.

Cameron no doubt wished to reassure those in his Conservative Party who doubt his euroskeptic zeal.

For, in our zeal to learn lessons from history, we often learn the wrong ones, or distort history towards dubious ends.

Tempered by the US public's fatigue with overseas adventures, America's missionary zeal to save the world from the wickedness of faraway autocrats will be reduced substantially.

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