Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈzɛl.əs/
zealous
- Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
- 1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, new ed. (1831) by John Wilson Croker, volume 1, page 238:
- Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:
- 1896, Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2004 edition), page 122:
- Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.
- 1940, Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940, page 61:
- […] and there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.
- 2011 April 4, "[http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044_2060338_2060079,00.html Newt Gingrich]," Time (retrieved 9 Sept 2013):
- Newt Gingrich . . . left Congress in 1998, following GOP midterm-election losses that many blamed on his zealous pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment.
- 1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, new ed. (1831) by John Wilson Croker, volume 1, page 238:
- (full of zeal) ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, passionate, zealotic
- (full of zeal) apathetic, dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic
- French: zélé
- German: eifrig, begeistert
- Italian: zelante
- Portuguese: zeloso
- Russian: рья́ный
- Spanish: celoso, ferviente
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