zeal-scoffing, adj.

zeal-scoffing
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Revised 2018

# † zeal-scoffingadjective

## Factsheet

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

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

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

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

Earliest known use

early 1600s

The only known use of the adjective zeal-scoffing is in the early 1600s.

OED's only evidence for zeal-scoffing is from 1605, in a translation by Joshua Sylvester, poet and translator.

### Nearby entries

1. zealotical, adj. 1630–
2. zealotism, n. 1645–
3. zealotist, n. & adj. 1593–
4. zealotry, n. 1653–
5. zealous, adj.?1495–
6. zealously, adv.?1495–
7. zealousness, n. c1555–
8. zealousy, n. 1542–
9. zeal-pretending, adj. 1652–69
10. zeal-quenching, adj. 1688–1877
11. zeal-scoffing, adj.1605
12. zeal-transported, adj. a1644–59
13. zeal-worthy, adj. 1797
14. zea maize, n. 1811–
15. zearalanol, n. 1966–
16. zearalenone, n. 1966–
17. zeatin, n. 1963–
18. zeaxanthin, n. 1929–
19. Zebedist, n. 1574
20. zebra, n. 1597–
21. zebra caterpillar, n. 1841–

## Meaning & use

Obsolete.

1. 1605
   That ridicules or derides religious devotion or zeal.
   Apparently an isolated use.
   1. 1605

      > The profanee, zeale-scoffing Atheist.

      J. Sylvester, translation of G. de S. Du Bartas, Deuine Weekes & Workes ii. i. 302
   religion

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

zeal, n. was revised in June 2018.