All 5 Uses
zeal
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- Marry, no man saw the killing, but this Unknown saw this hardy wretch near to the spot where the stag lay, and came with right loyal zeal and betrayed him to the forester.†
Chpt 17zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
- His loyal zeal—in a mask—looks just a shade suspicious.†
Chpt 17
- With characteristic zeal Sir Madok had plunged away at once upon this quest, and after three hours of awful crosslot riding had overhauled his game.†
Chpt 20
- This man had been out helping to hang his neighbors, and had done his work with zeal,
Chpt 30 *zeal = enthusiasm
- I helped to hang my neighbors for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of zeal in the master's cause; the others helped for none other reason.†
Chpt 30zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
Definitions:
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(1)
(zeal) active interest and enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)