All 6 Uses
zeal
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
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- Thus he said, marked in his aspect with the stamp of that upright zeal which in due measure glows in the heart.†
Canto 1-11 *zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
- But when it is bent to evil,[2] or runs to good with more zeal, or with less, than it ought, against the Creator works his own creature.†
Canto 12-22
- Yet, whence the intelligence of the first cognitions comes man doth not know, nor whence the affection for the first objects of desire, which exist in you even as zeal in the bee for making honey: and this first will admits not desert of praise or blame.†
Canto 12-22
- [8] "Swift, swift, that time be not lost by little love," cried the others following, "for zeal in doing well may refreshen grace.†
Canto 12-22
- [8] Examples of zeal†
Canto 12-22
- And a sweet melody ran through the luminous air; whereupon a righteous zeal caused me to blame the temerity of Eve, that, there, where time earth and the heavens were obedient, the woman only, and but just now formed, did not endure to stay under any veil; under which if she had devoutly stayed I should have tasted those ineffable delights before, and for a longer time.†
Canto 23-33
Definitions:
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(1)
(zeal) active interest and enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)