Both Uses
zeal
in
The Overcoat, by Gogol
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- It is not enough to say that Akakiy laboured with zeal: no, he laboured with love.†
*zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
- If his pay had been in proportion to his zeal, he would, perhaps, to his great surprise, have been made even a councillor of state.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(zeal) active interest and enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)