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FERVENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fervent mean? 

FERVENT (adjective)
  The adjective FERVENT has 2 senses:

1. characterized by intense emotionplay

2. (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowingplay

  Familiarity information: FERVENT used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FERVENT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by intense emotion

Synonyms:

ardent; fervent; fervid; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid

Context example:

a torrid love affair

Similar:

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

Derivation:

fervency (feelings of great warmth and intensity)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing

Synonyms:

fervent; fervid

Context example:

set out...when the fervid heat subsides

Similar:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)


 Context examples 


Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"You just bet I did," was the fervent reply.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What could I do but tell Miss Mills, with grateful looks and fervent words, how much I appreciated her good offices, and what an inestimable value I set upon her friendship!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The domestic, unpretending merits of a person never known do not often create that kind of fervent, venerating tenderness which would prompt a visit like yours.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Hers, for me, was, I believe, fervent as the attachment of your sister to Mr. Willoughby and it was, though from a different cause, no less unfortunate.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Till she had shed many tears over this deception, Fanny could not subdue her agitation; and the dejection which followed could only be relieved by the influence of fervent prayers for his happiness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Thank Gawd she’s not comin’ all of a bunch, Mr. Van Weyden,” was the Cockney’s fervent ejaculation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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