FERVOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fervour mean? 

• FERVOUR (noun)
  The noun FERVOUR has 2 senses:

1. the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

2. feelings of great warmth and intensity

  Familiarity information: FERVOUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERVOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

excitation; excitement; fervor; fervour; inflammation

Context example:

he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation

Hypernyms ("fervour" is a kind of...):

emotional arousal (the arousal of strong emotions and emotional behavior)

Attribute:

exciting (creating or arousing excitement)

unexciting (not exciting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fervour"):

fever pitch (a state of extreme excitement)

sensation (a state of widespread public excitement and interest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Feelings of great warmth and intensity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

ardor; ardour; fervency; fervidness; fervor; fervour; fire

Context example:

he spoke with great ardor

Hypernyms ("fervour" is a kind of...):

passion; passionateness (a strong feeling or emotion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fervour"):

zeal (excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end)

 Context examples 

"And then," he pursued, "I am cold: no fervour infects me."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The calm fervour of her cheerful voice brought back so vividly, first the dear old house itself, and then my solitary home, that my heart was too full for speech.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was looking thin and pale and weak; but her eyes were pure and glowed with fervour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He began his lecture by a recapitulation of the history of chemistry and the various improvements made by different men of learning, pronouncing with fervour the names of the most distinguished discoverers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Louisa had fine naval fervour to begin with, and they would soon grow more alike.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In the few minutes' conversation which she had yet had with him, while Harriet had been partially insensible, he had spoken of her terror, her naivete, her fervour as she seized and clung to his arm, with a sensibility amused and delighted; and just at last, after Harriet's own account had been given, he had expressed his indignation at the abominable folly of Miss Bickerton in the warmest terms.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“That I am sure of,” she answered, with uncommon fervour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I think I shall like you again, and yet again: and I will make you confess I do not only like, but love you—with truth, fervour, constancy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I can't forget how he prayed with almost equal fervour for a cat, and then tried to tear my throat out with his teeth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)