The spirits of men in Winter..have too much asperity in the morning to be trusted with zealotismes.
J. Wheelwright, Mercurius Americanus 17
1693
We had our times of Zealotism too.
R. Bynns, Sermon 21
1716
His Embassador's indefatigable Zelotism.
M. Davies, Suppl. Diss. Latin Drama 2 in Athenæ Britannicævol. III
1751
The folly & cruelty of stiffness & zealotism in religion.
T. Gray, Letter 8 September in Correspondence (1971) vol. I. 349
1888
I could not altogether escape..the Mohammedan zelotism.
C. M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Desertavol. I. 548
1968
The overwhelming moral zealotism of the Neo-Confucian movement.
American Historical Reviewvol. 73 877
2012
Initially, my father suffered from the common conversion affliction of zealotism, lecturing his bewildered ageing parents..about the karmic parallels between Nazi concentration camps and abattoirs.
M. Atkinson in J. M. Coetzee et al., 2013 Voiceless Anthology 10
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.
Vowels
ifleece, happy
ɪkit
ɛdress
ætrap, bath
ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
ɑrstart
ɔcloth, thought
ɔrnorth, force
ʊfoot
ugoose
əstrut, comma
ərnurse, letter
ɪ(ə)rnear
ɛ(ə)rsquare
ʊ(ə)rcure
eɪface
aɪpride
aʊmouth
oʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ɑ̃gratin
æ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.
Consonants
b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values
gguy
jjay
yyore
chchore
khloch
shshore
ththaw
dhthee
zhbeige
Vowels
atrap
ahpalm
airsquare
arstart
arrcarry (British only)
awthought
ayface
a(ng)gratin
edress
eefleece
eerdeer
errmerry
ikit
ighpride
irrmirror
olot (British only)
ohgoat
oogoose
oorcure
orforce
orrsorry (British only)
owmouth
oyvoice
o(ng)salon
ustrut
uhletter
urnurse
urrhurry
uufoot
Forms
Variant forms
α.
1600s
zealotisme
1600s–
zealotism
β.
1700s–1800s
zelotism
Frequency
zealotism typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zealotism is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zealotism, n., 1780–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1780
0.0041
1790
0.0042
1800
0.0044
1810
0.0046
1820
0.0041
1830
0.0048
1840
0.0055
1850
0.0058
1860
0.0058
1870
0.0053
1880
0.0048
1890
0.0047
1900
0.0043
1910
0.0034
1920
0.0028
1930
0.0026
1940
0.0027
1950
0.0027
1960
0.0025
1970
0.0022
1980
0.0022
1990
0.002
2000
0.0019
2010
0.0019
zealotism, n. was revised in June 2018.
zealotism, n. was last modified in September 2024.