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The root chasad has a primary meaning of 'eager and ardent desire', used both in the sense 'good, kind' and 'shame, contempt'. [2] The noun chesed inherits both senses, on one hand 'zeal, love, kindness towards someone' and on the other 'zeal, ardour against someone; envy, reproach'. In its positive sense it is used to describe mutual ...
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 ...
At the end of his sermon, which he had delivered with more than ordinary zeal, he stood silent all of a sudden, with his eyes fixed upon Heaven, in ecstasy. He foretold his death to several persons in the clearest terms, and began signing his letters, P. Fidelis, prope diem esca vermium ("Father Fidelis, in days ahead to become food for worms").
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
A terminus post quem may come from a possible topical allusion to the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605; "those that under hot ardent zeal would set whole realms on fire" (scene 7, 32–33 [14]). In the context of the play, the line is referring to religious zeal, but some scholars feel it is a subtle reference to the events of November. [15]
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The English word "zeal" is derived from his name. [1] Family. Zelus was the son of Pallas (the Titan) and Styx (an Oceanid). His siblings were Nike (Victory), Kratos ...
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