26 January 2015

zeal

[zeel]

noun
1. fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.

Origin
Middle English, Late LatinGreek
1350-1400; Middle English zele < Late Latin zēlus < Greek zêlos

Related forms
zealless, adjective
underzeal, noun

Synonyms
intensity, passion.

Antonyms
apathy.

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Examples from the web for zeal
– Lake took to the challenge of exposing fakes with the same zeal he’s shown in hoarding miniature liquor bottles.
– With the zeal of one who reviles an age-old wrong, he raised painting above poetry.
– In his political zeal he was not always scrupulous as to historical accuracy.

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Today’s aphorism

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

– John Lennon

On this day

26 January 1788 – Australia Day – the day that Captain Arthur Phillip landed at Botany Bay and took possession of Australia in the name of King George III of Britain.

26 January 1939 – During the Spanish Civil War, Nationalist forces loyal to General Francisco Franco enter Barcelona, overthrowing the Republican forces headquartered there.

26 January 1945 – Soviet troops liberate 7,000 survivors of the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland.

26 January 1950 – India becomes a republic, freed from British rule. The new President, Dr Rajenda Prasad had campaigned with Mahatma Gandhi for Indian self-rule. Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the country’s first Prime Minister on 10 February 1952.

26 January 1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.

26 January 1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ opens on Broadway for its first performance. The musical becomes a world-wide smash and is the longest running show on Broadway.