zeal-pretending, adj.

zeal-pretending
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Revised 2018

# † zeal-pretendingadjective

## Factsheet

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

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

This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the mid 1600s.

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

Earliest known use

mid 1600s

The only known use of the adjective zeal-pretending is in the mid 1600s.

OED's earliest evidence for zeal-pretending is from 1652, in the writing of E. Sparke.

### Nearby entries

1. zealot, n. & adj. a1400–
2. zealotic, adj. 1657–
3. zealotical, adj. 1630–
4. zealotism, n. 1645–
5. zealotist, n. & adj. 1593–
6. zealotry, n. 1653–
7. zealous, adj.?1495–
8. zealously, adv.?1495–
9. zealousness, n. c1555–
10. zealousy, n. 1542–
11. zeal-pretending, adj.1652–69
12. zeal-quenching, adj. 1688–1877
13. zeal-scoffing, adj. 1605
14. zeal-transported, adj. a1644–59
15. zeal-worthy, adj. 1797
16. zea maize, n. 1811–
17. zearalanol, n. 1966–
18. zearalenone, n. 1966–
19. zeatin, n. 1963–
20. zeaxanthin, n. 1929–
21. Zebedist, n. 1574

## Meaning & use

Obsolete.

1. 1652–69
   That pretends or professes to be zealous; characterized by this.
   1. 1652

      > Sweet unto all, pure at the Heart, Without the Zeale pretending Art: Covering the Good Graine she did sow, That so it might the better grow.

      E. Sparke, Scintillula Altaris sig. C3v
   2. 1658

      > A zeale-pretending halting Laodicean.

      R. Brathwait, Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 254
   3. a1669

      > Zeal-pretending-gravity.

      H. Foulis, History of Romish Treasons (1671) iii. ii. 150

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

zeal, n. was revised in June 2018.