mũorooto
- zeal, determination. Zeal. Strong enthusiasm, fervent determination, or intense desire to accomplish a particular purpose or goal; passionate commitment to an objective.
Example: iria ciathiaga na magũrũ, na thigari ngiri ithaano (5,000) cia mbarathi, arĩ na muorooto wa kũhoota Ayahudi. (So the following year he gathered together sixty thousand picked men and five thousand cavalry, to fight them.); Andũ nao makiuma na ihenya nyũmbainĩ ciao, me na muorooto wa kũhooya me hamwe oothe, nĩguo Hekaarũ ndĩkaae kũgwatio thaahu. (People rushed out of their houses and crowded together making common supplication, because the place was in danger of being profaned.)