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"text": "She extols the virtues of veganism with missionary zeal.",
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"ref": "1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, part 12, pages 143–144",
"text": "[…] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.",
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"ref": "1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709",
"text": "It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.",
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"ref": "1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 248",
"text": "The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.",
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"The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest."
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"ref": "1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, act v, scene 5, page 85",
"text": "[…] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!",
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"ref": "1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, page 5",
"text": "[…] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;",
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"ref": "2012, Alex Kuskowski, Zeal of Zebras: Animal Groups on an African Safari, page 8",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "cenë"
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"word": "جُهْد"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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],
"word": "جهد"
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"roman": "naxanjaxndrutʻyun",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "նախանձախնդրություն"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "udugigvdi",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "ᎤᏚᎩᎬᏗ"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "熱心"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "rèxīn",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "热心"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "熱情"
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"roman": "rèqíng",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "热情"
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"roman": "jīqíng",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "激情"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"word": "fervoro"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "into"
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"lang": "Finnish",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "გულმოდგინება"
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"roman": "sibeǯite",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "სიბეჯითე"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "თავგამოდება"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Begeisterung"
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"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "aljan",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"masculine"
],
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"roman": "prothumía",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
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"word": "προθυμία"
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"roman": "spoudḗ",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"word": "hév"
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "zelo"
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "díograis"
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"word": "zelo"
},
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"alt": "ねつじょう",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "netsujō",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "熱情"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"alt": "じょうねつ",
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"word": "意気込み"
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kisei",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "気勢"
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{
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"word": "studium"
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"lang": "Latin",
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"word": "alacritās"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "revnost",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ревност"
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "ğeyrat",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "غِیرَت"
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"word": "تَعَصُّب"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
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"word": "gorliwość"
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zelo"
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ardoare"
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{
"_dis1": "49 50 1",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
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"ref": "1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 248",
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "ᎤᏚᎩᎬᏗ"
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"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "გულმოდგინება"
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{
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"word": "თავგამოდება"
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"masculine"
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"neuter"
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"masculine"
],
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{
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{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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],
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{
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{
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{
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"masculine"
],
"word": "zēlus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ardor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fervor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alacritās"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "revnost",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ревност"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "engasjement"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "iver"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ğeyrat",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "غِیرَت"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "ta'assob",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "تَعَصُّب"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Iewa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
],
"word": "zapał"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gorliwość"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zelo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zel"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ardoare"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "râvnă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sârguință"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rvénije",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "рве́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "usérdije",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "усе́рдие"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "staránije",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "стара́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapál",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"masculine"
],
"word": "запа́л"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "utsāha",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "उत्साह"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eud"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "horlivosť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ahínco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fervor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "celo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "entusiasmo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "denuedo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "iver"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nit"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "nitälskan"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "ġayrat",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "ғайрат"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "spelkke"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "hırs"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "şevk"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "heves"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zapopádlyvistʹ",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "запопа́дливість"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zápal",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "за́пал"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zavzjáttja",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "завзя́ття"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zavzjátistʹ",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "завзя́тість"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"word": "gʻayrat"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sêl"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "fervour or devotion",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "selogrwydd"
}
],
"word": "zeal"
}
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