(n.) Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.
(n.) A zealot.
(v. i.) To be zealous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(2) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(3) The second approach for a UK-listed drug company by a US rival underlined the deal-making zeal that has seized the pharmaceutical sector.
(4) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(5) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(6) The Tea Party represents a serious strand in American public life – old-world fundamentalist in its exclusivity, self-righteousness and religious zeal.
(7) Like the Saudis, the Qataris dismiss accusations they helped create Isis by recklessly financing and arming Islamist rebels in Syria in their zeal to see Assad go.
(8) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(9) Peter Hain had replaced John Hutton as secretary of state for work and pensions, which was a considerable downgrade so far as reforming zeal was concerned.
(10) Once they got to grips with Leicester’s zeal, Villa began to demonstrate the greater guile.
(11) Circle's chief executive, Ali Parsa, said: "At a time when some healthcare commentators say the solution for small district general hospitals is simply to merge or be shut down, we believe the NHS Midlands and East's courage and zeal for innovation will enable us to show how clinician and staff control can provide a more sustainable alternative."
(12) The zeal for developing and marketing newer fluoroquinolones closely parallels that of the cephalosporins for the last 10 years.
(13) But Dr Steven Murdoch, a researcher at the computer laboratory of Cambridge University, said Chinese authorities have been using such methods with increasing zeal.
(14) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
(15) Their anger has so far been contained to the country's Sunni strongholds, but it contains a counter-revolutionary zeal prompting observers to fear that today's civil disobedience could be the start of something far worse.
(16) Putin said recently he could not rule out an amnesty of those involved in the case, which analysts say has been pursued with such zeal in order to discourage street protests against the regime.
(17) With great zeal, this pioneer used fluoroscopy for early detection of tuberculosis and other life-threatening chest disorders.
(18) The government's response to the rise in self-employment has been to praise the UK's entrepreneurial zeal, while increasingly promoting self-employment as an option to job-seekers."
(19) "Maybe she has genuine philanthropic zeal, but maybe she just wants to sell more records.
(20) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.
Zealotry
Definition:
(n.) The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a reminder of how tough the EU can be in enforcing competition in liberalised markets, but would it ever extend such zealotry to core public services?
(2) She maintained a moderate tone throughout and never gave the impression that what she was saying was anything but mainstream or that she was speaking from zealotry.
(3) John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and Arthur Miller's play The Crucible – in which the Salem witch-hunts serve as a metaphor for McCarthyite anti-communist zealotry – will also disappear from the list, according to the Sunday Times.
(4) "That kind of vitriol, hatred, and zealotry is really quite scary.
(5) Isis: the inside story | Martin Chulov Read more In its capacity to invade and hold a territory the size of England, to inspire me-too zealotry in Pakistan, Gaza, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya and Egypt, and to entice thousands of camp followers, Isis represents a quantum leap over all other private and state-sanctioned cults of violence and authoritarianism today.
(6) In doing so, he copped a political firestorm, even though it was obvious, or should have been, that sustaining economic growth and employment is always more important than the zealotry of always focusing on a smaller budget deficit.
(7) The Saudi regime is an unstable mix of ferocious religious zealotry and hypocritical monarchial decadence.
(8) Earlier on Tuesday, Abbott said "at this stage" Canberra was only preparing to be involved in a humanitarian mission to help ensure that tens of thousands of refugees in Iraq were not "exposed to the murderous zealotry of the Islamic State".
(9) Such policy zealotry ignores the subtleties of the cycle.
(10) At times of war, failing to participate with sufficient zealotry in the vilification of the current public enemy number one is treated as apologising for evil, or even as near-treachery.
(11) The shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, said: "This has all the Leninist fervour and ideological zealotry that surrounds Gove.
(12) For a membership once known for its love of quirky tartan outfits, the sartorial giddiness has been kept to a minimum, and perhaps this is mirrored too in the lack of referendum-related zealotry.
(13) The GOP's zealotry on tax cuts is only matched by its zealotry in pursuing austerity policies.
(14) He despised political expediency, but abhorred misplaced idealism and zealotry.