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zeal::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | eagerness, forwardness, readiness |
| Type of | willingness |
they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority.
Examples of zeal
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Our Iranian friends will pursue their nuclear weapons program with renewed zeal.
From the washingtontimes.com
Fourth, Obama has neutered much of the big corporate lobby's zeal to defeat him.
From the heraldtribune.com
Hawkins had reformed the agency herself with populist zeal several decades back.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Vitale's on-air fanatical zeal is the reason TV remotes come with a mute button.
From the kansas.com
And Collins rivals the NODE in a weird zeal for the past names of Russian towns.
From the economist.com
Some claim that it is even dulling the country's spirit of entrepreneurial zeal.
From the economist.com
It's depressing our government isn't above such cheap tricks in its zeal to win.
From the infowars.com
Also in many urban realities, civil servants used little zeal and more humanity.
From the en.wikipedia.org
To be sure, Congress'moral zeal did not extend as far as one might have thought.
From the forbes.com
- Ardor: 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"
- Excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end; "he had an absolute zeal for litigation"
- Readiness: 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"
- (zealous) avid: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"
- Zealotry was originally a political movement in the 1st century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy land by force of arms, most notably during the Great Jewish Revolt (66-70). ...
- 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. ...
- Zeals is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is next to the A303 road between Wincanton and Mere, and adjoins the villages of Bourton, Dorset and Penselwood, Somerset.
- Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum is a hands-on, multimedia arts and technology museum for kids of all ages located at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, California. ...
- The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest
