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zeal
English
Etymology
From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin z?lus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“to search”). Related to jealous.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /zi?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /zil/
- Rhymes: -i?l
Noun
zeal (countable and uncountable, plural zeals)
- The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
- Synonyms: ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion
- Antonym: apathy
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Romans 10.2,[1]
- […] I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
- 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, London: Jacob Tonson, Part 3, p. 96,[2]
- Zeal, the blind conductor of the will
- 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, pp. 143-144,[3]
- […] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 1, Chapter 14, p. 250,[4]
- [He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,
- 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 15, p. 248,[5]
- The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.
- (obsolete) A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.
- Synonym: zealot
- 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, Act V, Scene 5, p. 85,[6]
- […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!
- 1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, p. 5,[7]
- […] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;
- The collective noun for a group of zebras.
- Synonyms: dazzle, herd
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Elza, laze, zale
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excitement
English
Etymology
excite +? -ment
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?k-s?t?m?nt, IPA(key): /?k?sa?tm?nt/
Noun
excitement (countable and uncountable, plural excitements)
- (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
- E.A. Poe, The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaal:
- By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.
- E.A. Poe, The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaal:
- (countable) something that excites.
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