zelotypyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zelotypy_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezelotypy, n.
Revised 2018

† zelotypynoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1623–1794
    Jealousy. Cf. zelotypia n.
    1. 1623
      Zelotypie, iealousie.
      H. Cockeram, English Dictionarie
    2. 1667
      Notwithstanding this Law of Zelotypy, there was great Reason that divorces should be allowed in case of Adultery.
      A. Smalwood, Reply Pamphlet Oaths 198
    3. 1794
      The translator has thought good to adopt the term jealousy rather than zealotypy [to translate Latin zelotypia],..because the former is more familiar to an English ear.
      J. Clowes in translation of E. Swedenborg, Delights of Wisdom conc. Conjugial Love Notes 505

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

zelotypy, n. was revised in June 2018.

zelotypy, n. was last modified in September 2024.