Zealed vs Zealous - What's the difference?
zealed | zealous |
(obsolete) Full of zeal.
* 1808 , Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland: Volume 3 (page 1008)
Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
* 1791 , , volume 1, page 238:
* 1896 , , A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2004 edition), page 122:
* 1940 , Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940 , page 61:
* 2011 April 4, "
As adjectives the difference between zealed and zealous
is that zealed is (obsolete) full of zeal while zealous is full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.zealed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Beside these, there is another sort of men desirous of aduantage, and disdainefull of our wealth, whose greefe is most our greatest hap, and be offended with religion, bicause they be drowned in superstition, men zealed toward God, but not fit to judge...
zealous
English
Alternative forms
* zelousAdjective
(en adjective)- Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:
- Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.
- and there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.
Newt Gingrich," Time (retrieved 9 Sept 2013):
- Newt Gingrich . . . left Congress in 1998, following GOP midterm-election losses that many blamed on his zealous pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment.