zeal-quenching, adj.

zeal-quenching
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Revised 2018

# † zeal-quenchingadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zeal-quenching mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zeal-quenching. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1870s.

### Where does the adjective zeal-quenching come from?

Earliest known use

late 1600s

The earliest known use of the adjective zeal-quenching is in the late 1600s.

OED's earliest evidence for zeal-quenching is from 1688, in the writing of Alexander Shields, Presbyterian minister.

### Nearby entries

1. zealotic, adj. 1657–
2. zealotical, adj. 1630–
3. zealotism, n. 1645–
4. zealotist, n. & adj. 1593–
5. zealotry, n. 1653–
6. zealous, adj.?1495–
7. zealously, adv.?1495–
8. zealousness, n. c1555–
9. zealousy, n. 1542–
10. zeal-pretending, adj. 1652–69
11. zeal-quenching, adj.1688–1877
12. zeal-scoffing, adj. 1605
13. zeal-transported, adj. a1644–59
14. zeal-worthy, adj. 1797
15. zea maize, n. 1811–
16. zearalanol, n. 1966–
17. zearalenone, n. 1966–
18. zeatin, n. 1963–
19. zeaxanthin, n. 1929–
20. Zebedist, n. 1574
21. zebra, n. 1597–

## Meaning & use

Obsolete.

1. 1688–1877
   That thwarts, suppresses, or puts an end to zeal; that extinguishes enthusiasm, passion, or fervour.
   1. 1688

      > Cast to a deep Zeal-quenching Lethergie.

      A. Shields, Elegie J. Renwick sig. A2v
   2. 1727

      > The Christ-dethroning, Church-ruining,..Zeal-quenching Indulgence.

      P. Walker, Some Remarkable Passages Semple, Welwood & Cameron 161
   3. 1877

      > Zeal-quenching griefs that oft the young heart break.

      J. Tucker, Acrostics xxxviii. in Thermopylae 85

Originally published as part of the entry for zeal, n.

zeal, n. was revised in June 2018.