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Eleutheromania, or eleutherophilia is "a mania or frantic zeal for freedom". [1] The term is sometimes used in a psychological context, sometimes likening it to a mental disorder, such as John G Robertson's definition, that describes it as a mad zeal or irresistible craving for freedom. [2]
Leisure fanaticism – high levels of intensity, enthusiasm, commitment and zeal shown for a particular leisure activity; Nationalistic or patriotic fanaticism; Political, ideological fanaticism. Religious fanaticism – considered by some to be the most extreme form of religious fundamentalism. Entail promoting religious point of views
"Your organization, your vigilance, your devotion to duty, your zeal for the cause must be raised to the highest intensity." Winston Churchill, Speech, 14 July 1941.(This sentence comes after a lengthy passage in which Churchill warns the public that their courage and effort are still needed to defeat the enemy).
The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the Greek word ζῆλος (zēlos), sometimes "jealousy", but more often in a positive sense "emulation, ardour, zeal" [14] [15] (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast").
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Zeal may refer to: Zealotry, fanaticism. Zeal of the convert; Diligence, the theological virtue opposite to acedia; Zeal (horse), race horse; Zeal (surname) Zeal (web), an internet directory; Zeal Monachorum, a village in Devon; South Zeal, village in Devon; USS Zeal (AM-131), a U.S. Navy minesweeper; Zeal, an Air New Zealand subsidiary
The term was popularized from Shakespeare's Hamlet (1599-1601). [11]The earliest ancestor of "willy-nilly" is the Old English, "sam we willan sam we nyllan" ('whether we wish to or wish not to'), found in King Ælfred's translation of De Consolatione Philosophiæ in 888 AD. [12]
The zeal of the convert is a term describing the very fervent devotion to new beliefs, which are completely different from one's old beliefs. [1] [2] [3] For example, Paul the Apostle, formally known as Saul of Tarsus was a Jewish Pharisees who persecuted Christians until he had a life changing vision on the road to Damascus and became a Christian missionary who spent his life spreading ...