0 great enthusiasm or eagerness:
reforming/missionary/religious zeal
a zeal for money-making
1 great enthusiasm or interest:
In their zeal to protect the city against the new outbreak, the authorities targeted the unsanitary subjects they suspected of spreading the disease.
They did protect the gas station, for example, and some other specific stores with the zeal that the repressive forces reserved for big chain supermarkets.
They embraced modernity, in the shape of mechanization, with fervent zeal, but they were shunned by many of their more conservative colleagues.
The question of the overlap between imagery and vision has been investigated with particular zeal within the cognitive neuroscience community.
As exemplars of national - honor, dignity, and zeal, women served as the teachers of matriotic nationalism and nationalized masculinity.
The judiciary alone stood between the individual citizen and the excessive zeal of majority rule.
Rather than being displaced, they provided him with an arena in which to demonstrate his zeal as a reformer.
Night after night they have come, often long weary journeys, with un-agging zeal and unfailing regularity.