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zeal

noun
/ziːl/UK/zil/US

Etymology

From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin zēlus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to search”). Related to jealous.

  1. derived from *yeh₂-✻ — “to search”
  2. derived from ζῆλος
  3. derived from zēlus
  4. derived from zel
  5. inherited from zele

Definitions

  1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its…

    The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

    • She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.
    • I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
    • Zeal, the blind conductor of the will

  2. A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.

    • […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!
    • […] 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;

  3. A group of zebras.

    • A zeal of zebras confuses predators. Each zebra has a different set of stripes.
    • Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at zeal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at zeal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at zeal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA