Fervor
['fɜːvə]
Definition
(n.) Heat; excessive warmth.
(n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Heat, warmth.[2]. Ardor, zeal, earnestness, eagerness, fervency.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ARDOR]
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Examples
- I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If god spares Beth, I'll try to love and serve Him all my life, answered Jo, with equal fervor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The deep fervor of Tom's feelings, the softness of his voice, his tears, fell like dew on the wild, unsettled spirit of the poor woman. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The call for greater parental responsibility is, I fear, a rather empty platitude, for it is not re-enforced with anything but an ancient fervor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His fine face, classic as that of a Greek statue, seemed actually to burn with the fervor of his feelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That it is, Caleb, said his wife, with answering fervor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe in it with fervor as those who have religious faith believe in the mysteries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Will spoke with fervor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her book on prostitution seems rather the product of her moral fervor than her human insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The war did not come when moral fervor had risen to the exploding point; the moral fervor came rather when the economic interests of the South collided with those of the North. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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