zelotypiahttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zelotypia_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezelotypia, n.
Revised 2018

zelotypianoun

rare after 17th cent. Now historical.
  1. 1566–
    Jealousy; esp. obsessive or excessive jealousy, sometimes characterized as an illness.
    In quots. 1566 and 1852 personified.
    1. 1566
      Therfore by thys fygure Zelotypia, the frutes of concorde being taken away by other wickednesse, although they possessed ye ryches of Croesus, they were ye most miserable of all other creatures.
      N. Boorman, translation of A. van Baarland in translation of H. Schottenius, Gouernement all Estates sig. O.v
    2. 1601
      Euerie diuersitie or chaunge wee finde in passions,..as, Mercie, Shamefastnesse,..Zelotypia, Exanimation.
      T. Wright, Passions of Minde vi. 48
    3. 1663
      Zelotipia is gott into her pericranium, & I do not know what will gett it out.
      W. Denton, Letter 26 March in M. M. Verney, Mem. Verney Family Restoration to Revol. (1899) ii. 41
    4. 1852
      How much real beauty of character is hidden in Zelotypia by that over-weening self-love which puts her continually in dread of losing those she loves.
      Democrat's Review May 469
    5. 1949
      There is also the element of jealousy, with its own very special atmosphere. It is sharply distinguished..from the traditional zelotypia of husband and wife, which is morally reprehensible, and may be separated by us from the zelotypia of the medical men.
      Modern Philology vol. 47 122/1
    6. 2007
      ‘Mad’ Mary Verney, whose husband's philandering drove her to zelotypia, or morbid jealousy.
      New Yorker 11 June 135/2

zelotypia, n. was revised in June 2018.

zelotypia, n. was last modified in December 2024.