Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
zealous .
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Examples
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Another example of zelous agents of the BATF with a grudge against so called "assault rifles".
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Totally Un PC - No, but as you can see from the wierd comment above which is clearly a system generated comment I think the anti-spam and link firewall maybe over zelous again.
Teardrop City « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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If she is not ready, no amount of breifing books are going to matter to someone who's life has been a serious of zelous, reckless choices made chiefly to benefit Sarah Palin.
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When one of his over zelous campain workers puts out a memo, he personally takes responsibility for it, although it did not come from him directly.
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Still, since the ERA seems aimed primarily to benefit women, and my view is that they are already better off than men, my support has significantly lagged since my zelous support back during Vietnam.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Interesting Anti-ERA Pamphlet: 2007
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I almost is a schziophrenia ; you have this ultra zelous side; and the evil sexual side that cannot express itself, but in the worst ways.
Think Progress » Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Gay Affair 2006
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Then the repubs have two years to gloss over it and claim the zelous dems are out of detroy our freedoms.
Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Bush Should Pardon Libby. He Should Do it Now’ 2006
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No vertuous dede or zelous worke can want due prayse of the honest, though faulting fooles and youthly heades full ofte do chaunt the faultles checke, that Momus mouth did once finde out in Venus slipper.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The quarrel arose from the zelous espousal of the Marian faction by
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Erle of Glencarne being thairof advertissed, repaired with his freindis to the toune with diligence, and so did diverse gentilmen of Kyle, (amonges whome was the Lard of Lefnoryss, [340] a man far different frome him that now lyvith*, [SN: ANNO 1566. *] in maneris and religioun,) of whome to this day yitt many lyve, and have declared thame selfis alwayes zelous and bold in the caus of God, as after wilbe heard.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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