noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion. countable, idiomatic, obsolete, uncountable

   "Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and much quench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled."

Example

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"Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and much quench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled."

Etymology

From quench + coal.

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