Zeal

Definition of zeal:

part of speech: noun

Passionate ardor.

part of speech: noun

Boiling or passionate ardor for anything: enthusiasm.

part of speech: noun

Ardor in a cause, or in promoting some end; great earnestness; enthusiasm.

Usage examples for zeal:

• Mr. White was of the same opinion, but, being too wise to check zeal and caution, told Seaton he might go for his own satisfaction. "Foul Play", Charles Reade Dion Boucicault.

• But this was too little for her grief and her zeal "A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume II. of VI.", Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot.

• And the republican General again began pacing up and down the room, as though he did not at all like the position in which his patriotic zeal had placed him. "La Vendée An Historical Romance", Anthony Trollope.

• This holy man is under my protection, and his fault was but over- zeal "The Last Of The Barons, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.