zeal - What does it mean?

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The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

* Dryden

Zeal , the blind conductor of the will.

* Bible, Romans x. 2

I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

(obsolete) A zealot.

(Ben Jonson)

* (fervor) ardor, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion

* (fervor) apathy

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