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  • noun British Alternative spelling of ardor.

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  • noun feelings of great warmth and intensity
  • noun a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
  • noun intense feeling of love

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Examples

  • I’ve let her try, but her ardour is somewhat disconcerting.

    Bank Of VaJayJay | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • It is possible, my friend, that your ardour is a little compromising.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • The seeds of my ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the "Aeneid," mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. '

    My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • Their ardour was a moral ardour, and the lightest breath of scandal never rested upon them, or upon any phase of Transcendentalism.

    Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879

  • It is possible, my friend, that your ardour is a little compromising.

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Philanthropic ardour, which is generally the characteristic mark of all the members of the assotiation, that you yet sympathise with us, in our adversity, and rejoice in our prosperity.

    Letter from F. W. Harrison to Thomas Jones, April 10, 1824 1824

  • All this he expressed with that ardour, which is congenial to the simplicity of truth; and with that enthusiasm, which in all instances accompanies recent conviction.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

  • In the mean time, I have been indulging a hope, which at moments has appeared almost a certainty, that Clifton, by our mutual efforts, shall acquire all this true ardour, which is so lovely in Frank.

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

  • Our troops, too, had all the ardour which is added even to the boldest by the assurance of victory.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

  • In human love, as St. Thomas teaches (I: 27: 3), even though the object be external to us, yet the immanent act of love arouses in the soul a state of ardour which is, as it were, an impression of the thing loved.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

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