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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
zeal
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
missionary
▪ Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal.
▪ The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.
▪ Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal.
▪ The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal.
▪ A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function.
▪ But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
reforming
▪ He burned with a reforming zeal.
▪ As with all other proposed changes for broadcasting, the details of the Thatcher Government's reforming zeal are as yet unknown.
religious
▪ A small but destructive minority has turned from religious zeal to crime, or to insurrection against its own governments.
▪ Taylor brought an almost religious zeal to his work of advancing the state of computing.
revolutionary
▪ Inside, I was gripped, as I always was, by the intense atmosphere of revolutionary zeal.
▪ Both brought a revolutionary zeal to their work, literally and figuratively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
missionary zeal
▪ A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function.
▪ But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
▪ Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal.
▪ The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.
▪ The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal.
▪ Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In their zeal to catch drug dealers, police have ignored citizens' basic civil rights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But their zeal as reporters often took precedence over their New Deal leanings.
▪ In the 60s many people brought a quasi-religious zeal to their calling.
▪ Now we saw them very rarely, and they were not hunting with their previous zeal.
▪ Some of these arguments were presented with quiet, scientific calm, and others with prophetic zeal.
▪ The party converted to the free market with a zeal that out-Thatchered Thatcher and out-Reaganed Reagan.
▪ The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect.
▪ The turnover trouble overshadowed the fact that the Matadors played with a rare amount of zeal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zeal

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

Zeal

Zeal \Zeal\ (z[=e]l), n. [F. z[`e]le; 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.
    --Rom. x.

  2. A zeal for liberty is sometimes an eagerness to subvert with little care what shall be established.
    --Johnson.

    2. A zealot. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
zeal

"passionate ardor in pursuit of an objective or course of action," late 14c., from Old French zel (Modern French zèle) and directly from Late Latin zelus "zeal, emulation" (source also of Italian zelo, Spanish celo), a Church word, from Greek zelos "ardor, eager rivalry, emulation," "a noble passion" [Liddell & Scott], but also "jealousy;" prom PIE *ya- "to seek, request, desire." From mid-15c. as "devotion."

Wiktionary
zeal

n. 1 The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest. 2 (context obsolete English) A zealot.

WordNet
zeal

  1. n. 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" [syn: ardor, ardour, elan]

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

Wikipedia
Zeal

Zeal may refer to:

  • Diligence, the theological virtue opposite to acedia
  • Zealotry, excessive ideological zeal
Places
  • Zeal Monachorum, village in Devon
  • South Zeal, village in Devon
Other
  • Zeal (surname)
  • Zeal (horse)
  • Zeal (web), an Internet directory
  • Kingdom of Zeal, a kingdom in the Chrono Trigger video game

  • , a U.S. Navy minesweeper

  • Zeal, an Air New Zealand subsidiary
Zeal (horse)

Zeal (foaled 1818) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, which won the eighth running of the classic 1000 Guineas. As a three-year-old in 1821 won she won her first three races at Newmarket Racecourse including the 1000 Guineas but then finished fourth in the Epsom Oaks. As a four-year-old she walked over in the valuable Port Stakes but was beaten in her only other race. She later had a successful career as a broodmare.

Zeal (web)

Zeal was a volunteer-built web directory, first appearing in 1999, and then acquired by LookSmart in October 2000 for $20 million. Zeal combined the work of Looksmart's paid editors with that of volunteers who profiled websites and placed them in a hierarchy of subcategories. The resulting categories and profiles were downloaded at intervals by LookSmart and its partners, other search companies such as MSN, Lycos, and Altavista, for use in their own systems with or without modification.

Paid editors attended to commercial sites and oversaw the voluntary work on non-commercial sites.

Volunteers worked under a defined set of Guidelines and were required to pass an introductory level test on those Guidelines before submitting site profiles or edits. As points and experience were acquired, volunteers could elect to take a further exam which allowed them to "adopt" and create topic categories of special interest. They could then move up the organizational structure from Community Member to Zealot to Expert Zealot, acquiring additional tools and oversight responsibility at each level. Expert Zealots, who could move or delete some whole categories, monitored the day-to-day operations of the non-commercial portion of the directory and acted as mentors to new members.

Active volunteers were found in many English-speaking countries (particularly North America, United Kingdom, India, Australia, and New Zealand) and some other countries such as Spain, Switzerland, and Japan.

By March 2003, Zeal had passed the 250,000 listings mark; eventually it passed the 400,000 mark due, in part, to the Zeal Charity Drive contest of October 2003, which saw over $25,000 distributed around prominent charities such as WWF.

After Looksmart's acquisition of Zeal, its internet traffic as measured by Alexa fluctuated considerably; after MSN withdrew from the related partnership, Zeal traffic declined from "usually better than 2000th" (mid-2003) to "about 5000th" (mid-2004).

Branch offices in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom were closed in about 2004, and the corresponding directories were said to have been sold but/and were gradually merged with the main directory.

Zeal closed on 28 March 2006.

Zeal (surname)

Zeal is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

  • Sir William Zeal (1830–1912), Australian engineer and politician
  • Kelechi Iheanacho Zeal (born 1981), Nigerian footballer

Usage examples of "zeal".

Father Marcus was an Uraluran, converted and ordained, abrim with zeal.

This question has been disputed With as great zeal, and even acrimony, between the Scotch and Irish antiquaries, as if the honor of their respective countries were the most deeply concerned in the decision.

In the midst of this zeal against popery and the pretender, they were suddenly adjourned by the command of the lord-lieutenant, and broke up in great animosity against that nobleman.

The sermon had at first been entrusted to the Reverend Father Agaric, but, in spite of his merits, he was thought unequal to the occasion in zeal and doctrine, and the eloquent Capuchin friar, who for six months had gone through the barracks preaching against the enemies of God and authority, had been chosen in his place.

But the Archdeacon, owing to your zeal, my dear Mornington, has been trying to saddle me with the responsibility for the loss of this chalice Sir Giles was writing about.

The flock, without a shepherd, was assaulted by the power of the Portuguese, the arts of the Jesuits, and the zeal of Alexis de Menezes, archbishop of Goa, in his personal visitation of the coast of Malabar.

The cruel and avaricious desires of the monarchs against these thrifty and industrious people added fuel to the flames of the popular passion, and even a fanatic zeal arose among the Jews to perish as martyrs to their ancient religion.

His prudence rendered him averse to any great innovation, and though his temper was not very susceptible of zeal or enthusiasm, he always maintained an habitual regard for the ancient deities of the empire.

Nelson was appointed to a command, extending from Orfordness to Beachy Head, on both shoresa sort of service, he said, for which he felt no other ability than what might be found in his zeal.

Without consulting the dictates of religious zeal, he was prompted, by humanity and gratitude, to bestow the last honors on the remains of his deceased sovereign: and Procopius, who sincerely bewailed the loss of his kinsman, was removed from the command of the army, under the decent pretence of conducting the funeral.

A second patent cause of the mania was the zeal and the bibliolatry of Protestantism.

He would have hounded to death for bowelless principles and shoddy thinking any man setting out to murder a child from some sort of distorted crusading zeal.

So he began to study the geographical distribution of the goat with the zeal of an anthropologist localising dolicocephalic and brachycephalic races.

Mister Bredford manages the part of young Randal with enough brio and costume changes to bolster a sagging career, plunging into the early battle scenes with commendable bloodthirsty zeal, and handling himself convincingly enough in those steamily explicit sexual encounters where all eyes are, in any event, on the voluptuous attributes of the tempestuous daughter of the neighboring plantation, played with an abandon obscuring any notions of her own acting ability by the stunning Nordic-Eurasian discovery Anga Frika in her first American starring role, had enough?

Delighted with the graceful creature, I told her that I had been happy enough to feel interested in her even before I had seen her, and that now that I had the pleasure of seeing her, I could but renew with greater zeal all my efforts to serve her.