Ardour
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
She spoke persuasively and with ardor.
intense devotion, eagerness, or enthusiasm; zeal:
his well-known ardor for Chinese art.
burning heat.
Contemporary Examples
But Jack Scott came in and entered into the “game,” as he called it, with ardour.
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Historical Examples
In the ardour of the chase the dogs soon ran out of sight, pursuing their quarry towards the shore at Sligachan.
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1886 Various
Imogen, you are too beautiful—I have beheld you too long—I have admired you with too fierce an ardour.
Imogen William Godwin
She had loved Sir Alexander with all the ardour of a first youthful attachment.
The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Susanna Moodie
“Yourself,” he whispered, with an ardour that almost amounted to fierceness.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini
Gurney applied his steam-jet to other purposes than propelling locomotives and exciting the ardour of furnaces in ironworks.
Cornish Characters S. Baring-Gould
Xenophon, mounted on his charger, rode beside his men, and roused their ardour the while.
Anabasis Xenophon
For all that I accomplished during this day, I believe myself indebted to the strenuousness and ardour of my resolutions.
Arthur Mervyn Charles Brockden Brown
The party of intervention, however, was still active and full of ardour.
England and Germany Emile Joseph Dillon
At a subsequent period he devoted himself with ardour to his improvement in general knowledge.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. Various
noun
feelings of great intensity and warmth; fervour
eagerness; zeal
n.
chiefly British English spelling of ardor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.
n.
early 15c., “heat of passion or desire,” from Old French ardure “heat, glow; passion” (12c.), from Latin ardorem (nominative ardor) “a flame, fire, burning, heat;” also of feelings, etc., “eagerness, zeal,” from ardere “to burn” (see ardent). In Middle English, used of base passions; since Milton’s time, of noble ones.
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