zeal-pretendinghttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeal-pretending_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezeal-pretending, adj.
Revised 2018

† zeal-pretendingadjective

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.