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    zeal


    1. Perhaps he had desecrated his heritage by diluting his seed in the immense native population, but with all their catholic reproductive zeal, there were still less than a hundred pure-blooded Brazilians and less than a thousand known any-blood Brazilians on this planet of forty billion


    2. He always worked with zeal, with vigour and not without considerable skill and expertise, but the truth was that the television celebrity and his wife were too busy to see the merits of his arguments about the grand old oak tree


    3. Intelligent crime on a huge scale with a demon in the detail; a high-powered, heavily-armed, luxurious schooner feeding world-wide drivelling greed, gagging for more and supplied on demand by ruthless slavering zeal


    4. He always worked with zeal, with


    5. “When I need one, for now I am content with yours, in spite of your zeal in finding my clone-mother’s exact last instant


    6. 19In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a


    7. God gives grace for fasting, but your zeal won’t take you very far


    8. There have been other times when I fasted out of zeal, and God actually told me to stop because I was doing it for the wrong reasons


    9. The zeal of the Captain of the Host is fearful and awesome, but


    10. religious zeal prohibited all interest

    11. Zeal, passion, and good ideas will no longer carry the


    12. a project in a state of infant zeal that so often fizzles out, and was


    13. I aspired to see the zeal of his younger days, those


    14. All of the previous had become routinely repetitive years ago though and what she once carried out with pride and zeal was now just a part of her daily and weekly things-to-do list that was methodically checked off in robotic fashion


    15. Were the officers of the army to oppose, with the same zeal and unanimity, any reduction in the number of forces, with which master manufacturers set themselves against every law that is likely to increase the number of their rivals in the home market ; were the former to animate their soldiers


    16. It is in this set of men, accordingly, that I have observed the greatest zeal for the continuance or renewal of the bounty


    17. Their exertion, their zeal and industry, are likely to be much greater in the former situation than in the latter


    18. The independent provisions, however, which in many places have been made for dissenting teachers, by means of voluntary subscriptions, of trust rights, and other evasions of the law, seem very much to have abated the zeal and activity of those teachers


    19. In the church of Rome the industry and zeal of the inferior clergy are kept more alive by the powerful motive of


    20. The interested and active zeal of religious teachers can be dangerous and troublesome only where there is either but one sect tolerated in the society, or where the whole of a large society is divided into two or three great sects; the teachers of each acting by concert, and under a regular discipline and

    21. But that zeal must be altogether innocent, where the society is divided into two or three hundred, or, perhaps, into as many thousand small sects, of which no one could be considerable enough to disturb the public tranquillity


    22. But should the sovereign attempt irregularly, and by violence, to deprive any number of clergymen of their freeholds, on account, perhaps, of their having propagated, with more than ordinary zeal, some factious or seditious doctrine, he would only render, by such persecution, both them and their doctrine ten times more popular, and therefore ten times more troublesome and dangerous, than they had been before


    23. They were propagated with all that enthusiastic zeal which commonly animates the spirit of party, when it attacks established authority


    24. In a particular exigency, the people may, from great public zeal, make a great effort, and give up even a part of their capital, in order to relieve the state


    25. “I apologise for the zeal of my man


    26. Well, I"m here to tell you that capitalism in this country will never fail, but not for the want of trying by such corporations as Hughes and Loreal, in their zeal to effect technology transfers in missile guidance and super computers to Communist China


    27. I shall always carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest


    28. Certain groups in recent generations, however, have been hampered, for political and social reasons, perhaps, by bureaucratic ―visionaries‖ whose (utopic) imaginations and impractical zeal for alternative (economic) reforms have repeatedly impeded economic progress, if not encouraged underachievement


    29. For the zeal of The Lord of Hosts has established them, and upon their foreheads is My name


    30. You stand up against an entrenched system, struggling for basic human rights and a sense of belonging to a country that would rather you and your people didn’t even exist!” The idealistic zeal of college days spurred her on

    31. Bad investments with finances: in your zeal to


    32. However, not to dampen the young officer’s zeal, he listened, albeit impatiently, to his account, tedious for its attention to minute and mostly unrelated detail, of a death the previous night


    33. He was even afraid of his own missionary zeal


    34. 669) and al-Husain (680) did not dampen the zeal of their followers


    35. You might as well have asked how? For I Am has given some an opportunity to acquire a Vision for the benefit of all! But most have been mistreated because of their zeal to share that which they have ‘seen’! And Man’s imaginings have been a poor substitute for the Reality that is all around him


    36. to trust in Him, and, after a couple of years and many trials, my zeal


    37. the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah


    38. It was described as “a product of zeal” by the president of CBS, who issued an apology


    39. Kosmo felt zeal had much to do with


    40. 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord

    41. The releasing influence of this secret neurotransmitter might also explain his hyperactive zeal for highway


    42. 9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached you are fallen on me


    43. escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this


    44. and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak


    45. your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? Are they restrained? 16


    46. the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them


    47. 23 The third in glory is Phinees the son of Eleazar, because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage of


    48. 2 He brought a terrible famine on them, and by his zeal he diminished their number


    49. summit of the image as ah adversary of the zeal of the Mighty One


    50. 5 And he was zealous with zeal for the Mighty One with all his soul, and he alone was firm in the law at that time, so













































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    Synonyms for "zeal"

    eagerness forwardness readiness zeal ardor ardour elan enthusiasm fealty fidelity love loyalty devotion

    "zeal" definitions

    a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)


    excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end


    prompt willingness