noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
missionary
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Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal .
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The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.
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Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal .
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The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal .
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A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function.
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But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
reforming
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He burned with a reforming zeal .
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As with all other proposed changes for broadcasting, the details of the Thatcher Government's reforming zeal are as yet unknown.
religious
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A small but destructive minority has turned from religious zeal to crime, or to insurrection against its own governments.
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Taylor brought an almost religious zeal to his work of advancing the state of computing.
revolutionary
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Inside, I was gripped, as I always was, by the intense atmosphere of revolutionary zeal .
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Both brought a revolutionary zeal to their work, literally and figuratively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
missionary zeal
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A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function.
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But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
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Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal.
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The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.
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The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal.
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Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In their zeal to catch drug dealers, police have ignored citizens' basic civil rights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But their zeal as reporters often took precedence over their New Deal leanings.
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In the 60s many people brought a quasi-religious zeal to their calling.
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Now we saw them very rarely, and they were not hunting with their previous zeal .
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Some of these arguments were presented with quiet, scientific calm, and others with prophetic zeal .
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The party converted to the free market with a zeal that out-Thatchered Thatcher and out-Reaganed Reagan.
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The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect.
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The turnover trouble overshadowed the fact that the Matadors played with a rare amount of zeal .