Both Uses of
zeal
in
Moby Dick
- ...but in their hasty zeal to befriend him, and from the circumstance that both he and the sharks were at times half hidden by the blood-muddled water, those indiscreet spades of theirs would come nearer amputating a leg than a tail.
Chpt 70-72 *zeal = enthusiasm
- So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(zeal) active interest and enthusiasm