Adjective

(en adjective)

Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.

* 1791 , , volume 1, page 238:

Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:

* 1896 , , A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2004 edition), page 122:

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.

* 1940 , Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940 , page 61:

and there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.

* 2011 April 4, " 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.

Adjective

(head)

invigorating or inspiring

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As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.

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* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]

*:The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.