Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Great warmth and intensity of emotion. synonym: passion.
- noun Intense heat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Heat or warmth.
- noun Warmth of feeling; ardor; impassioned earnestness: as, the fervor of enthusiasm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Heat; excessive warmth.
- noun Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US An
intense ,heated emotion ;passion ,ardor . - noun US A
passionate enthusiasm for some cause. - noun US
Heat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- noun feelings of great warmth and intensity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Before all the Blogs Start I believe that the Palin fervor is more basic then conservative and liberal.
Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else' 2009
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The timing of this immigration fervor is in time for getting the immigration wedge issue going for election ‘10? when lee atwater’s old index cards are all you have to go on, you tend to end up running the same campaigns over and over and over again. fortunately, amnesiacs like fuzzy and the ‘baggers never catch on that it’s always a re-run.
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If personal fervor is the yardstick upon which systems of belief are to be measured, then perhaps bitblt should convert to Islam.
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The so-called “second wave” has breathed new life into a protest that was dwindling in fervor by the day.
Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition protests enter fifth day 2009
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In two words, which Wilson later apologized for, all the fury and fervor from the raucous health care town halls of August spilled over into the supposedly civil sanctum of the House of Representatives.
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That hurtling-along-the-edge fervor is what stamped the early slam with its signature.
She can drink legally now! : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It's really too bad that the Scopes Trial, and attendant religeous fervor, is relevant at all today, but we have "Intelligent (sic) Design" and "Creationism" being pushed on people by well-heeled manipulators like Ayatollah Robertson.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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It's really too bad that the Scopes Trial, and attendant religeous fervor, is relevant at all today, but we have "Intelligent (sic) Design" and "Creationism" being pushed on people by well-heeled manipulators like Ayatollah Robertson.
Archive 2004-06-13 Michael Evans 2004
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A great Niagara of religious fervor is cascading down around them while they stand obtuse and dry in the little cave of their own parochialism — and many of them are journalists and policy analysts, who are paid to keep up with these things.
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A great Niagara of religious fervor is cascading down around them while they stand obtuse and dry in the little cave of their own parochialism — and many of them are journalists and policy analysts, who are paid to keep up with these things.
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