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.
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
- zealotical, adj.1630–
- zealotism, n.1645–
- zealotist, n. & adj.1593–
- zealotry, n.1653–
- zealous, adj.?1495–
- zealously, adv.?1495–
- zealousness, n.c1555–
- zealousy, n.1542–
- zeal-pretending, adj.1652–69
- zeal-quenching, adj.1688–1877
- zeal-scoffing, adj.1605
- zeal-transported, adj.a1644–59
- zeal-worthy, adj.1797
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- zearalanol, n.1966–
- zearalenone, n.1966–
- zeatin, n.1963–
- zeaxanthin, n.1929–
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- zebra, n.1597–
- zebra caterpillar, n.1841–
1605
That ridicules or derides religious devotion or zeal.
Apparently an isolated use.
1605
The profanee, zeale-scoffing Atheist.
J. Sylvester, translation of G. de S. Du Bartas, Deuine Weekes & Workes ii. i. 302
Originally published as part of the entry for zeal, n.
zeal, n. was revised in June 2018.
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