All 7 Uses of
zeal
in
The Scarlet Letter
- They were allowed, on my representation, to rest from their arduous labours, and soon afterwards—as if their sole principle of life had been zeal for their country's service—as I verily believe it was—withdrew to a better world.†
p. 15.8zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
- Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy.†
p. 16.9
- the religious zeal that brought other emigrants across the Atlantic.
p. 80.9 *zeal = enthusiasm
- —guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved by them; no evil of the past be redeemed by better service.†
p. 89.5zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
- Their love for man, their zeal for God's service—these holy impulses may or may not coexist in their hearts with the evil inmates to which their guilt has unbarred the door, and which must needs propagate a hellish breed within them.†
p. 89.7
- The helpful inmate had departed, without one backward glance to gather up the meed of gratitude, if any were in the hearts of those whom she had served so zealously.†
p. 108.9zealously = with active interest and enthusiasm
- Since that wretched epoch, he had watched with morbid zeal and minuteness, not his acts—for those it was easy to arrange—but each breath of emotion, and his every thought.†
p. 135.7zeal = active interest and enthusiasm