Obs. Forms: 6 zelousie, -ye, zelosie, -zie. [f. ZEALOUS + -Y3.]
1. Jealousy.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., II. 177 b. Whiche grudges … the zelousie, and the eagre feersenes of Olympias did augmente.
1598. Q. Eliz., Plutarch, 126/25. Or Zelozie of wife, or Sons suspect, or dout of frind.
2. Zealousness, zeal.
1597. Middleton, Wisd. Solomon, v. G a b. His armour zealousie, his breast-plate heauen.
