ardour

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