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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 King in his letter to them asked them to avoid any "disputes and unnecessary and unbecoming discussions" (Principal Acts, page 5) and in response the Assembly wanted "to embrace every opportunity of testifying the ardent zeal which we feel for the support of Your Majesty's Government and Royal person". It thanked the King for delivering the ...
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]
Giovanni Battista Rinuccini described Nugent as "a man of most ardent zeal and most exemplary piety", and the annalists of the order state that he refused the Archbishopric of Armagh offered him by Pope Pius V, [4] who styled him "the support of the Church and the light of the orthodox faith".
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
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Note that the tenth hour is about 4pm, or about two hours before sunset. Lapide says that St. John adds these words, to show both the zeal of Christ, who, even though it was towards evening would not put them off until the following day, but started immediately upon the things pertaining to salvation.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.