Definition of "zeale" []

• Archaic spelling of zeal. (noun)

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• "_Erasmus_ studious: one way to bee rich in times of dearth, is to engrosse a rare commodity, such as zeale is: now, if ever, _they have destroyed thy Law_; It is now high time to be zealous."
• "This differentiated between those carried away with the like fanaticall zeale that the Powder-Traitors were and law-abiding quietly minded Papists.28"
• "The never ynough wondered at and abhorred POWDER-TREASON . . . being not onely intended against me and my Posteritie, but even against the whole house of Parliament, plotted onely by Papists, and they only led thereto by a preposterous zeale for the advancement of their Religion. . ."