Word of the Day for Friday, November 11, 2011
zeal \zeel\, noun:
Fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
The B.O.'s zeal for the "Occupy" movement will surely come back to bite him; oh wait, he started it; well, it will still come back to bite him in his political derriere!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
...serve him with zeal, and love him with fidelity.-- Fanny Burney, Cecilia: Or, Memoirs of an Heiress
This passionate profession, which Newman uttered with the greater zeal that it was the first time he had felt the relief words at once as hard and as careful as hammer-taps could give his spirit, kindled two small sparks in Mrs. Bread's fixed eyes.-- Henry James, The American
Zeal is derived from the Greek word zelos, the same root as the word zealous.
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