Fervid
['fɜːvɪd] or ['fɝvɪd]
Definition
(a.) Very hot; burning; boiling.
(a.) Ardent; vehement; zealous.
Typist: Sanford
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Hot, burning, boiling, fiery.[2]. Ardent, earnest, glowing, FERVENT.
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Examples
- He replied to her fervid entreaties, that he would never be able to get up the narrow stairs without Bob; where was Bob, would nobody fetch Bob? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His fervid nature could not afford to relinquish one of these, though two of the three were as many as he could hope to preserve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The language was there, visible, but untranslatable--a poem, a fervid lyric, in an unknown tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Receive these fervid lines--my last legacy to the country I leave for ever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I heardpoured forth on the threshold, some fervid murmurings to Marie, Reine du Ciel, some deep aspiration that _his_ hope might yet be _mine_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He is a very fervid, impassioned speaker--full of fire! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was also deprived, at the time, of the inestimable advantage of hearing the events related by the fervid eloquence of Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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